A wave of violence inside and outside prisons drew attention to President Bernardo Arévalo's fragile political balancing act ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least 27 inmates were found dead from asphyxiation Sunday at a prison in Ecuador where a riot broke out that left four others ...

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

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Deadly rioting that broke out at a prison in Ecuador where inmates were set to be transferred to a new maximum-security facility has left at least 31 inmates killed and 30 others ...

According to the account provided to EFE, police reinforcements arrived at the facility and used "rubber bullets," "pepper spray," and physical force to contain the disturbance ...

Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — Two days after a deadly riot at Washington State Prison left three men dead and more than a dozen injured, two former Georgia inmates say the violence was not an isolated ...

Authorities at a prison in Ecuador's El Oro province said that they found at least 27 individuals on Sunday afternoon who had died from asphyxiation caused by "immediate death by hanging." ...

A Florida handyman who was sentenced to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.

For the second year in a row, Brazil has witnessed a deadly prison riot on the first day of the year. A death toll of nine has been reported from the central state of Goias. One inmate was decapitated ...