The climate crisis, marked among other consequences by rising temperatures, has also affected the Brazilian prison system, ...

Supporters and detractors of the embattled leader gathered outside the federal police headquarters after the order was issued ...

Brazil's Supreme Court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting a ...

We look into how Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted for attempting to overturn Brazil’s 2022 election and ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's lawyers have filed a petition with the Supreme Court requesting house arrest citing his poor health.

The ex-president was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for trying to foment a coup after his election loss.

Brazil's federal police arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of leading a coup attempt, on Saturday.

A judge ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to be incarcerated at Brazil's Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia.

Brazil's far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro is running out of options to avoid prison, after judges on Friday rejected his appeal against a 27-year sentence for a botched coup bid. Bolsonaro ...

The Supreme Court ruling formalizes the case’s final disposition and sends the former president and senior officials involved in the coup plot to begin serving sentences, while one fugitive lawmaker ...

Who knew geese could work in prison security? In Brazil, one facility does exactly that. The São Pedro de Alcântara Penitentiary has put the birds on perimeter duty to keep escapes in check. Strange ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has begun serving his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt intended to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections, a ...