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 ...

Filmmaker Hector Babenco sees the parallels, and so do his friends, who have peppered him with questions about the similarities between Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the Brazil penitentiary that ...

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 ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — A coordinated wave of riots blamed on a powerful inmate gang swept through 21 prisons in the tense penal system of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Sunday, leaving at least eight people dead ...

It is probably a coincidence that Hector Babenco, the Brazilian director who made a great film set largely in a prison (“Kiss of the Spider Woman”), has now returned to prison. His new movie is ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) – A Brazilian court sentenced 23 police officers on Sunday to 156 years in jail each for killing 13 inmates in Brazil’s bloodiest prison revolt in which 111 inmates died more than ...