Twenty-seven inmates were found hanged over the weekend at a prison in Machala, the capital of Ecuador’s El Oro province, ...

Ecuador's Interior Minister John Reimberg said inmates across the country have been staging violent uprisings to prevent ...

At least 31 inmates have been found dead in a prison in southern Ecuador, including 27 who had been hanged, officials say.

Two clashes between rival gangs in a southern Ecuadorian prison left at least 31 inmates dead on Sunday, including 27 who ...

California prison officials are investigating a riot involving about 20 inmates that broke out Monday morning at California ...

The inmates point to investigative reports from the Idaho Department of Correction that suggest gangs like the Aryan Knights and the Severely Violent Criminals were able to wrest control from staff ...

Long before it became an ICE detention center, the Miami Correctional Facility was constantly beset by violence fueled largely by gangs and drugs.

The deaths came hours after a prison clash the same day that left four inmates dead and injured 33 prisoners and one police ...

SANDERSVILLE, Ga. — Contraband drones are overwhelming Washington County, where nearly half the jail population now consists of suspects caught smuggling drugs and cell phones into the state prison.

Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or ...