More than 40 people were reportedly killed after rioting broke out at a prison in Venezuela ... described as an escape attempt in that report. Riots in the unsanitary and overcrowded prisons ...

[AFP] A prison riot has left at least 47 dead and 75 wounded in western Venezuela, a country where NGOs and inmates' families regularly denounce unsanitary conditions, violence and overcrowding ...

Inmates at Tocuyito prison in the Venezuelan state of Carabobo have taken four other prisoners and dozens of guards hostage in a jail riot. Photos on social media show the four prisoners kneeling ...

Murder charges will be filed against at least nine inmates at Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, which has seen riots and ...

Here's what we know so far about Tren de Aragua: Tren de Aragua originated as a gang at the Tocorón Prison in Aragua, Venezuela ... were arrested in El Paso on riot charges.

Authorities say the number of inmates killed in a riot in Ecuador’s largest and most dangerous prison has risen to 17, a day after the goriest prison episode under the watch of President Daniel Noboa ...

In March 1996, when a Human Rights Watch/Americas delegation visited Venezuela, several expert observers, voicing general skepticism over the prospects for prison reform, told us that they ...

In the aftermath of prison riots or escapes ... in plastic buckets that they were periodically allowed to empty. In Venezuela, inmates in parts of some facilities do not even get buckets; they ...

Maybe it is time, now that everyone else has had his say on the continuing problem of prison riots, that a former convict should make some observations on the subject. A lot of analyses of the ...

Another prison riot in Ecuador Monday evening has left at least five inmates dead and six others wounded at the Pichincha correctional facility in Quito also known as “El Inca,” where some ...

Donald Trump instigated a riot at the Capitol where 100-plus police were injured! He won't apologize for it, he's happy about ...