From its very first scenes–showing the arrival of a young doctor of shining goodwill and naivete at boisterous Carandiru prison in Sao Paolo, Brazil–Hector Babenco’s “Carandiru” is a prison movie of ...

Ten military police officers have been convicted in a court case over a police raid that killed eight inmates on the fifth floor of Block 9 of the now-defunct Carandiru penitentiary. Nine policemen ...

A group of fifteen police officers have been sentenced to 48 years in prison for killing four inmates during a police operation in the now-defunct São Paulo Penitentiary. The incident became known as ...

Visit to Carandiru, photo by Flickr user silmaraelis, published under a Creative Commons license. The caption says “the souls had longer been forgotten there”. The Carandiru Massacre, considered a ...

São Paulo – The saga of the 1992 riot at São Paulo's Carandiru prison continued when 25 Brazilian police officers were found guilty on Saturday of killing 52 inmates. Judge Rodrigo Tellini de Aguirre ...

TWENTY-five police officers have been sentenced to life in prison in Brazil for their role in a prison massacre that left 111 prisoners dead. Each officer was sentenced to 624 years in prison for ...

Rioting prisoners in Brazil’s biggest jail took nearly 8,000 guards and visitors hostage Sunday in a protest that spread to at least 22 other jails in southeastern Sao Paulo state. The riot started ...

SAO PAULO – Fifteen Brazilian police officers have been found guilty of killing four inmates during a 1992 riot at Sao Paulo's Carandiru prison. On Wednesday, each was sentenced to 48 years in prison, ...

Hector Babenco’s brutal yet involving prison drama, “Carandiru,” immediately drops us from high in the sky above Sao Paulo directly down inside the dark, dank walls of the infamous Casa de Detencao -- ...

Movie-goers familiar with the tides of recent Brazilian history will probably get more from Hector Babenco’s new prison movie, Carandiru, than the rest of us, because the filmmaker tells us so little ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- -- Dexter and AfroX glare down from the stage and kick into a blistering rap about a life of crime and drugs. No gangsta posturing here -- these guys are the real thing. At the ...