Francisco Garcia, a 23-year-old inmate at Lerdo Jail, escaped custody this past Saturday around 11 p.m. while attending a medical appointment.

Police said the violence was the result of ‘fighting between gangs’ in a facility housing double the number of inmates it was ...

Police said the violence was the result of ‘fighting between gangs’ in a facility housing double the number of inmates it was ...

QUITO: Inmates in Ecuador fought each other with guns and explosives in a riot that left 13 prisoners and a guard dead, police said. The mayhem was the latest in a series of bloodbaths to engulf ...

Leury Mojica, 22, a convicted robber who became a violent menace in the MDC Brooklyn federal jail got nine years behind bars ...

A prison riot caused by gang fighting in southern Ecuador has left 14 people dead and another 14 wounded, according to a ...

Police say 13 inmates and one prison guard have been killed and another 14 people injured in clashes between rival gangs in a ...

Ecuador has seen violence spiral in recent years as enemy gangs with ties to Mexican and Colombian cartels vie for control.

Four state corrections officers pleaded guilty Monday in a Utica courtroom in the fatal beating of an inmate last year at a Central New York prison. The corrections officers had been scheduled to go ...

A violent prison riot spurred by gang conflicts in southern Ecuador resulted in 14 deaths and 14 injuries. Prisoners killed a ...