Brazil has the world's third-largest prison population with more than 700,000 people in jail, not counting the more than 35,000 held in police facilities, according to data from the World Prison ...

THE daughter-in-law of a woman who baked a deadly Christmas cake for her family has reportedly been arrested by police on ...

Police in Brazil say 77 inmates are on the run after escaping amid a riot at a jail in the central state of Goias. The authorities say nine prisoners were killed and 14 injured when a group of ...

Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexander De Moraes Thursday ordered former Justice Minister Anderson Torres released from jail where he was under pre-trial detention for his alleged ...

Sheppard of Brazil. Sheppard was then transported to Clay County Jail and incarcerated. This is an ongoing investigation, and ...

A Spanish court on Thursday sentenced former Brazil international Dani Alves to ... winner to five years probation after he serves his jail term, and demanded he pay 150,000 euros ($162,000 ...

The 43-year sentence is considered relatively harsh, although Silva, like most white-collar criminals in Brazil, is only likely to spend as little as a sixth of his sentence Dirceu, the former ...

Robinho, the disgraced former Manchester City, Real Madrid and AC Milan forward, is banged up alongside high-profile murderers as he serves a nine-year sentence for rape ...

Roberto Carlos is accused of owing his ex-partner Barbara Thurler over £15,000 He has been sentenced to three months in jail in Brazil for delays in paying more than £15,000 in child support.