In the early hours of Thursday, a deafening uproar of screams, metallic clashes, and chants against the regime shattered the ...

QUITO (Reuters) -A day of violent rioting at a prison in southwest Ecuador on Sunday caused the deaths of at least 31 inmates, ‌the country's prisons agency said. Twenty-seven prisoners in port town ...

QUITO/GUAYAQUIL, Feb 16 (Reuters) - After hundreds of Ecuadorean inmates were killed in prison riots in 2021 and 2022, ...

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 ...

A 36-year-old man was stabbed nearly 180 times at a California state prison and someone inside captured video of the gruesome ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fatal prison riots were nearly a monthly occurrence in Ecuador in 2021 and 2022 as the nation's jails became a microcosm of a wider surge in drug-related violence rocking the country.