Armed gangs attacked Haiti’s National Penitentiary on Saturday, allowing several notorious gang leaders and other prisoners to escape the vastly overcrowded facility, a high-level police source ...

Tren de Aragua, MS-13 and the Sinaloa cartel are among the two gangs and six drug cartels the US has officially designated as foreign terrorist organizations, fulfilling a long-standing goal from US ...

Rival gangs of inmates fought in two prisons in Ecuador, killing at least 22 people and injuring about 80, authorities said Thursday. Violence broke out on Wednesday in the main prison in the city of ...

After the jailbreak, President Bernardo Arevalo dismissed his Interior Minister, Francisco Jimenez. He replaced him with ...

We know all about the men involved in various gangs around the world, but what happens when those men are caught and sent to prison? How do they all communicate with each other in different prison ...

Canada's prison system is struggling with a dangerous gang population that is becoming increasingly diverse and more difficult to manage. About 2,306 inmates are now known to belong to what ...

The grisly riot is the latest deadly prison attack this year Author of the article: You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. SAO PAULO — At least 52 ...

Police say 13 inmates and one prison guard have been killed and another 14 people injured in clashes between rival gangs in a jail in Ecuador. People living near the prison in the southwestern city of ...

A prolonged gunbattle between rival gangs inside Ecuador's largest prison killed at least 68 inmates and wounded 25 on Saturday, while authorities said it took most of the day to regain control at the ...

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

At least four people were killed and over 30 were injured in violence on Sunday at a prison in Ecuador involving firearms and ...

Spanish police arrested 13 suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua across five cities, seized a stash of ...