Brazil has a nationwide program that lets prisoners cut their sentences by reading books and proving they understood them.

Emily de Souza, a Brazilian inmate, participates in a reading program to reduce her sentence and reunite with her son sooner. The initiative allows inmates to reduce their sentences by reading books, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vetoed a bill that would have reduced the prison sentence of his right-wing ...

Brazil's government is relocating gang bosses tied to a weekend prison riot that left 56 inmates dead and is the country's deadliest in nearly 25 years. The inmates believed to be responsible for a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — At least 52 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said. Sixteen of the dead were decapitated ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former President Jair Bolsonaro was granted a brief leave Wednesday from his 27-year prison sentence for a coup attempt so that he could undergo medical tests at a hospital in ...

Brazil, which has one of the highest per-capita incarceration rates in Latin America, stands out for having one of the most ...