Two former inmates say the deadly riot at Washington State Prison was preventable, blaming chronic understaffing, unsafe ...

Washington County Sheriff Joel Cochran released the identities of two of the three Washington State inmates dead after ...

QUITO, Ecuador(AP) — Deadly rioting that broke out at a prison in Ecuador where inmates were set to be transferred to a new maximum-security facility has left at least 31 inmates killed and 30 others ...

Bryan Kohberger is set to spend the rest of his life in one of America’s worst prisons — a maximum-security hellhole that faces accusations of feces-smeared cages, brutally violent guards, rioting ...

At least 27 inmates were found dead from asphyxiation Sunday at a prison in Ecuador where a riot broke out that left four others dead and dozens injured earlier in the day, officials said. The inmates ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador's president has declared a state of emergency in the prison system following a battle among gang members in a coastal lockup that killed at least 116 people and injured 80 in ...

Guatemala entered a 30-day state of emergency after gang-led prison riots and retaliatory attacks left at least 10 police ...

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, ...