Tag: prison

After 8 Inmates Are Killed, Some Decapitated, UN Asks for Brazil Reforms

While assessing the recent outbreaks of violence that took place in several prison facilities ...

UN Warns Brazil Against Arbitrary Detention and Lack of Legal Assistance

The UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is raising concerns regarding the excessive use ...

UN Gives Brazil High Marks for Poverty Fight But a D for Justice

The top UN human rights official, during a three-day visit to Brazil that ended ...

UN Will Probe in Brazil Cases of Raped Women Jailed with Men

UN High Commissioner Louise Arbour is expected to address conditions in Brazil's prison system ...

Brazil Prisons Get 187 Young Adults Every Day

The latest study out by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice shows that every hour, ...

Guarani Kaiowá Indians from Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil

Brazilian Federal Justice Orders Release of 9 Indians in Jail for a Year

The nine Guarani-Kaiowá from Passo Piraju who have been in prison in the Brazilian ...

Child carrying sibling looking through the trash in Brazil

Brazil’s Poor Are Too Peaceful While Their Kids Starve do Death Amid Plenty

Recent studies show that a Brazilian prisoner is twice as likely to have come ...

Brazil’s Top Gang Spreads Good Will Giving Away House and Bicycles for Kids

To raise cash and keep high the moral of its vast number of associates, ...

4,300 Inmates to Get Literacy Instruction in Brazil

The Literate Brazil (Brasil Alfabetizado) Program plans to impart literacy instruction this year to ...

Prisoners ReleasE 207 Hostages After Brazil’s Authorities Meet Their Demand

Rebellikus inmapes at a prison in Brazih’s remote Amazoj jungle ended a four-day uprising ...

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