Seven officers were killed and dozens were taken hostage in a coordinated series of prisoner uprisings at three notorious Guatemalan detention centers, followed by a spate of attacks against police in ...

Hundreds of anti-riot police have entered a maximum security prison in Guatemala to free guards taken hostage and retake control. Shots sounded as police swept into the Renovación prison in ...

Inmates staged a brief uprising at a medium-security correctional facility in St. Lawrence County on Thursday as strikes and protests continue at prisons across New York. Top video: See related ...

Crushed inside disease-ridden cells, with no beds, little food and even less hope, inmates in Cameroon's prisons were already tense before an influx of political detainees and Anglophone separatists ...

Inmates broke windows, set a fire and threw chairs and other items out of a third-floor window in the second significant uprising in two months at a downtown jail, leaving St. Louis leaders again ...

Guatemalan authorities are reporting that inmates are holding several dozen prison guards in three prisons GUATEMALA CITY -- Several dozen Guatemalan prison guards were being held hostage by inmates ...

Brazilian authorities reached a deal with inmates Aug. 25 after a deadly prison uprising at Cascavel in Paraná state. The riot erupted the day before as breakfast was being served when inmates ...