On the outskirts of Lima, Peru, stands a prison facility like no other. Its latest inmate transferred last month is a former president, like all others who have been imprisoned in Barbadillo. Five ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — In one of his first acts as interim president of Peru, José Jerí on Saturday led a series of raids on prisons holding gang leaders nationwide, the presidency said, a day after the ...

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 ...