Riots

These days, Moscow looks as though it is under occupation by enemy troops. Tens of thousands of security personnel in full gear have been blocking off main streets in the city centre. Local residents have been unable to go almost anywhere without being stoppe…

ALTAMIRA, Brazil (Reuters) - Odijane Mota still cannot make sense of her son Efraim’s gruesome death in a Brazilian jail. The 22 year old was one of dozens of inmates killed during prison riots in the northern Brazilian city of Altamira last week, and she s…

Ferguson, Missouri, was the site of riots five years ago after Police Officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. Sparked ostensibly by one fatal abuse of power, the unrest was fueled, it became clear in subsequent reporting, by mor…

A Brazilian prison inmate whose attempt to escape jail dressed as his own teen daughter went internet-viral has been found dead in his cell of an apparent hanging. Rio de Janeiro state authorities reported on Tuesday that Clauvino da Silva, 42, hung himself…

Two shooters opened fire in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio on Saturday and Sunday, killing 29 so far in less than 24 hours. The FBI is investigating an anti-immigrant manifesto believed to have been written by the El Paso shooter, 21-year-old Patrick Crusiu…

Four inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots suffocated while being transferred to another jail, officials said Wednesday, taking to 62 the number killed over two days. The men were among 46 prisoners removed from the Altamira Regional Rec…

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Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - The deadly riot in a prison at Altamira in northern Brazil, which left more than 50 dead on Monday, is the latest unrest in Latin America's notoriously overcrowded jails. Of the deadliest prison riots around the world in recent years, …

At least 52 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organised crime groups at the Altamira prison in northern Brazil on Monday, according to prison officials. Para state prison authorities said 16 of the victims were decapitated while o…

Last week, violent riots erupted in the NSW Frank Baxter Juvenile Justice Centre. Several inmates allegedly attacked known sex offenders, and a held a siege on the rooftop lasting nearly 22 hours. In June, officers at the centre walked off the job after a num…