As the US doubles down on overt interventions, experts warn policymakers may be overlooking a key battlefield: prisons across the region.

Police and soldiers are being deployed in large numbers to Brazil's northeast to fight a wave of gang violence fueled by the overloaded, collapsing prison system. More than 400 elite federal troops ...

Repeated restrictions imposed by state governments and prison directors on the spiritual assistance provided to inmates in ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Twenty prisoners are often stacked in a cell designed for five. Inmates, who on paper have a right to trial within 81 days, routinely stew in prison for six or seven months, or ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday started his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, to the surprise of many in the South American nation who doubted ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday started his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, to the surprise of many in the South American nation who ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro started on Tuesday to serve his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the ...