LIMA, Peru — Peru, battling a wave of violent crime, said Wednesday it would build a prison for its most dangerous offenders on an island facing the capital Lima. It would be erected on the same spot ...

Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with ...

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The Constitutional Court of Peru (TC) approved on Wednesday a five-year extension for reducing overcrowding of the nation’s prisons. The resolution, issued in 2020 and set to expire on Tuesday, was ...

Peru has once again been shaken by a corruption scandal involving one of its former presidents. Alejandro Toledo, who led the country from 2001 to 2006, has been sentenced to prison for the second ...

Nine inmates were killed and scores of guards wounded when rioting broke out at a prison in Lima after two inmates died from COVID-19, authorities in Peru said Tuesday. The riot broke out Monday at ...