Violence, mayhem and chess-playing hostages all elements of a wacky, behind-bars uprising that snagged national headlines, TV ...

A large fight at an Arizona prison left multiple inmates hurt and has led to conflicting reports about how serious it was. Ryan Thornell, director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, ...

At least 31 inmates died at an Ecuador prison on Sunday afternoon after violent, armed riots broke out, authorities said. According to a statement shared by the country's prisons authority, 27 ...

TIRELESSLY TO ENSURE JUSTICE OCCURS IN THIS CASE. OTHER NEWS RIGHT NOW, FOUR INMATES WERE INJURED IN A PRISON RIOT THAT BROKE OUT IN FOLSOM. THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SAYS IT HAPPENED AT ...

Conflicts between cartels and other organized crime groups in Mexico are often replicated in prison populations, which ...

The initial riot at the Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex in the state capital, Manaus, was followed by uprisings at two other prisons. In all, 184 inmates escaped from two prisons in Amazonas state ...

Jimmy Trammell was killed in a prison riot just three days before his scheduled release after ten years. A gang-related sidewalk fight left three inmates dead, 13 hospitalized, and forced an emergency ...

A riot occurred on the Cascade Unit at the California Correctional Center about 2:05 p.m. Saturday, May 3. The incident ...

The deadly riot in a prison at Altamira in northern Brazil, which left more than 50 dead on Monday, is the latest unrest in Latin America's notoriously overcrowded jails. Over the past three decades, ...