Brazil's typical prisoner: young, black, and poorly educated. Photo: Flickr
The National Penitentiary Department, an institution under the Ministry of Justice, has published a new report concerning Brazil’s prisoner population. The data shows that the typical prisoner in Brazil are males under 30 years old, black, and uneducated. In 2016, there were at least 372 deaths inside the penitentiary system.
That number should go up in 2017, over 100...
U.S. Congresswoman Susan Wild, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, on Tuesday said that a House hearing…
The accounts of federal, state, and municipal governments, plus those of state-owned companies, recorded a…
With their stadiums under water and flights suspended, clubs in the state of got the…
Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, a state the size of Ecuador, has…
In September 2023, an extratropical cyclone hit Brazil’s South region, causing heavy rains and floods…
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is no longer interested in buying Novonor's controlling…