Twenty-three inmates escaped and one guard was killed after armed men stormed a prison in the Mexican resort town of Puerto ...

MACON, Ga. — Another inmate who was involved in the riot at the Washington State Prison last weekend has died. Washington County Coroner Mark Hodges confirmed on Saturday that another offender ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guatemala’s president has declared a state of emergency following a weekend eruption of violence during which gang members took ...

Nine inmates were killed Thursday as gang members stabbed and bludgeoned their rivals to death in a prison brawl in Mexico, authorities said, the latest deadly violence in the countrys jails. The ...

At The New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe in 1980 was one of the most violent prison riots in U.S. history. Resulting ...

In a devastating turn of events, 42-year-old Jimmy Trammell was killed during a violent gang-related riot at Washington State Prison just 72 hours before his scheduled release. After serving a full 10 ...

A routine night in a New Mexico prison turned into total collapse—hostages taken, control systems seized, and the facility spiraling fast. The scary part is how many warnings existed and how many ...

The initial riot at the Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex in the state capital, Manaus, was followed by uprisings at two other prisons. In all, 184 inmates escaped from two prisons in Amazonas state ...

QUITO/GUAYAQUIL, Feb 16 (Reuters) - After hundreds of Ecuadorean inmates were killed in prison riots in 2021 and 2022, President Daniel Noboa made restoring order in jails one of the central pillars ...