WHAT IS MOST AMAZING about "Carandiru," Hector Babenco's brilliant, fact-based drama about events leading up to a notorious 1992 massacre in a Sao Paolo prison, is how a film so claustrophobic manages ...

A man walks next to 111 painted cell doors displayed at Casa de Detencao at the Carandiru prison complex, as part of an instalation by Brazilian artist Siron Franco, in Sao Paulo, September 20, 2002.

Hells on Earth, alas, abound, and many of them have bars and guards. We've had our own recent experience at Abu Ghraib, from which we continue to stagger in recovery, as if such things still have the ...

Hector Babenco's prisondrama Carandiru has become thehighest grossing Brazilian film of all time in its home territory according tolocal distributor Columbia TriStar. In terms of admissions, it ...

It has been two decades since a shocking massacre in Brazil led to the deaths of more than a hundred inmates at the Carandiru jail in Sao Paulo, but the city has not forgotten. On Wednesday, hundreds ...

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 ...

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 ...

The jail was demolished in 2002, but the state has been slow to bring the perpetrators to trial Twenty-five police have been given long sentences for their part in the 1992 massacre in Sao Paulo's ...

There were numerous riots at Carandiru before the jail was demolished in 2002. A court in Brazil has sentenced 23 police officers each to 156 years in jail for involvement in a notorious 1992 prison ...