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 ...

Five prison guards at Paraguay’s maximum-security Minga Guazu Penitentiary have been charged with allegedly facilitating the ...

(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.

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

“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 ...

The Brazilian, 41, completed a 600-hour electronics course and now fixes radios and televisions inside the prison, which is said to house more than 2,500 inmates. Alongside participating in the ...

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.

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 ...

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

The 41-year-old, who has continued to deny wrongdoing and insists his sexual relations with the woman at a Milan bar were ...