At least 57 inmates were killed during a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said. Sixteen of the dead were decapitated in the second major ...

Rioting inmates beheaded rivals and burned others alive in an explosion of violence in two Brazilian jails that left at least 18 people dead on Monday, the authorities said. Prisoners also took women ...

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 ...

At least 57 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organized crime groups in the Altamira prison in northern Brazil Monday with 16 of the victims being decapitated, according to ...

Brazilian authorities said that the inmates responsible for the killings of 60 rivals at two prisons in the Amazon region will be transferred to high-security federal institutions in addition to being ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil (Reuters) - Odijane Mota still cannot make sense of her son Efraim's gruesome death in a Brazilian jail. The 22 year old was one of dozens of inmates killed during prison riots in the ...

The riot occurred on Monday in the Complejo de Aparecida prison in the center-west state of Goias. Another 14 inmates were wounded, one of them critically, the head of the state's prison service, ...

Brazilian authorities reached a deal with inmates Aug. 25 after a deadly prison uprising at Cascavel in Paraná state. The riot erupted the day before as breakfast was being served when inmates ...

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