Riots and prison violence are a common thing in Brazil, the number three on our list of countries with the worst jails and prisons in the world, and jails in Brazil’s Pernambuco state are the worst.

including several who were beheaded or dismembered in the worst bloodshed at a Brazilian prison since 1992. Authorities said the riot that raged from Sunday afternoon into Monday morning grew out ...

Many of those slain were beheaded or dismembered in the worst bloodshed at a Brazilian prison since 1992. Amazonas state public security secretary Sergio Fontes said the transfers will begin as ...

Altogether 56 prisoners were killed in the riot. It was Brazil’s worst prison massacre since Carandiru in Sao Paulo in 1992, when the military police killed 111 prisoners. The riot was part of ...

A spate of violence in Brazil's prisons has cast a spotlight on a system which appears to be near a state of collapse. Almost 100 inmates lost their lives in the first week of January alone ...

Inmates at a Rio de Janeiro prison killed at least 30 people, beheading half of them, in three days of gang war anarchy that marked the worst jail violence in Brazil in more than 10 years ...

Brazil’s deadly prison riot is just one piece ... The rioting Sunday and Monday in Amazonas include the country's worst prison bloodshed since 1992, with half of the 56 slain at one institution ...

including several who were beheaded or dismembered in the worst bloodshed at a Brazilian prison since 1992. Authorities said the riot apparently grew out of a fight between two of the country’s ...

Just talking about jails and prisons makes a lot of people uncomfortable but this list of 15 countries with the worst jails and prisons in the world will definitely give you creeps. Safe prisons ...

Prison violence is not uncommon in Brazil. In Brazil, funerals are being held for the men who died in the worst prison riot in that country for a quarter century. Fifty-six prisoners were killed ...

including several who were beheaded or dismembered in the worst bloodshed at a Brazilian prison since 1992. Authorities said the riot that raged from Sunday afternoon into Monday morning grew out ...

Organised gangs - so ubiquitous in Brazilian jails that many experts believe criminals virtually run the country's prison system - are blamed for the current rioting and unrest in Sao Paulo state. One ...