Shuttering the department completely requires an act of Congress, and Trump lacks the votes for that. The order is designed to leave school policy almost entirely in the hands of states and local ...

Former Manchester City, AC Milan, Real Madrid and Brazil superstar Robinho is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence ...

(CNN)-- The Brazilian government is investigating the case of a 15-year-old girl who allegedly was raped and tortured after being put in a prison cell with 20 male inmates, officials said.

“Heavily armed men knocked down the main gate after an exchange of fire with police and penitentiary agents,” the state's secretariat for prisons said. Heavily armed men blew down the front ...

BRAZIL’S Amazonas state governor Jose Melo declared yesterday that inmates responsible for killing 56 rivals at a state prison will be transferred to high security federal institutions in addition to ...

Brazil's prison population has exploded to 196,000 nationwide, representing 0.12 percent of the nation's 170 million people. An average 2.5 people live in space designed for just one inmate.

It has been a year since 41-year-old Robinho was imprisoned, having been sentenced to nine years for gang-raping an Albanian ...

At least 75 inmates, many of them members of a notorious Brazilian gang, escaped from a Paraguayan prison in a border town on Sunday, according to authorities who said they immediately fired the ...

Brazil’s soccer head says rape convictions for Alves and Robinho end ‘nefarious chapter’ - The president of Brazil’s soccer ...

Brazilian authorities frequently isolate rapists ... Tremembe penitentiary has about 430 inmates and is 150 kilometres (93 miles) northeast of Sao Paulo. It is split between full-time prisoners ...