TUXPAN, Mexico (AP) — Authorities in the Mexican state of Veracruz on Sunday said they have restored order in a prison where seven inmates were killed and 11 were injured in a riot that broke out the ...

OLYMPIA — Under a new bill passed by the Washington State Senate, youth in juvenile detention centers would no longer be handed prison riot charges after altercations. The Senate describes House Bill ...

Seven inmates died amid unrest at a prison in the eastern Mexico state of Veracruz, authorities said Sunday, with 11 other prisoners suffering injuries. The fighting first broke out Saturday afternoon ...

Police officers stand guard next to a fire department ambulance outside the main prison in Machala, Ecuador on September 22, 2025. [AFP] A prison riot caused by gang fighting in southern Ecuador has ...

For years, prosecutors have filed more prison riot charges against young people incarcerated at a state-run juvenile detention center in Chehalis than any other facility in Washington. Legal advocates ...

HARTSVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Many NewsChannel 5 viewers have responded to our ongoing reports on CoreCivic and Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility since the violent overnight riot that lasted from ...

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced charges for 26 people Tuesday morning related to drug overdose deaths, and to a recent “riot,” in the state penitentiary. Jackley said his goal as ...

At least 17 people have been killed in a prison riot in Ecuador, the second deadly prison brawl to hit the country this week.

QUITO (Reuters) -At least 17 people were killed in a prison riot in Ecuador's northern city of Esmeraldas, near the border with Colombia, the country's prison agency said on Thursday. Authorities are ...

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the ...