Vieira is believed to be the Red Command leader in the state of Goias Police in Brazil have arrested a drug lord accused of ordering a deadly prison riot on New Year's Day. Nine inmates were ...

Tatiane Correia de Lima has only recently been transferred from a mainstream prison On the ... Getty Images Many of Brazil's mainstream jails suffer from overcrowding and riots are not uncommon ...

Around 33% of the prison population is made up of pretrial detainees. Along with severe overcrowding and gang violence, riots and breakout attempts in Brazil's prisons are not uncommon.

Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Thursday handed down prison sentences to three defendants involved in the Jan. 8 riots in Brasilia during which the headquarters of the country's three ...