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 ...

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 ...

Bloodied and burned bodies were stacked in a concrete prison yard and piled in carts, an AFP photographer at the scene said. The riot broke out Sunday afternoon and lasted through the night at a ...

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 ...

The initial riot at the Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex in the state capital, Manaus, was followed by uprisings at two other prisons. In all, 184 inmates escaped from two prisons in Amazonas state ...

A 17-hour riot at a Brazilian prison between gangs fighting for control of drug sales resulted in scores of deaths and a ...