As Ecuador approaches a decisive presidential runoff election on April 13, the race between incumbent President Daniel Noboa and leftist candidate Luisa González is locked in a virtual dead heat. The ...

Staff were being warned of notes and messages being passed between increasingly restless inmates of a planned protest in the prison chapel. The tip-offs were largely ignored and what followed sparked ...

Sara Snell, the new chief inspector of prisons in Scotland, worked in the prison service in England during the infamous riot. In an exclusive interview with The Herald just weeks after taking up ...

FOLSOM, Calif. — Several people were injured after a riot Wednesday morning at California State Prison, Sacramento, officials said. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ...

FOLSOM – Five inmates from the California State Prison, Sacramento were injured and taken to the hospital on Wednesday morning after officials said a riot involving about 40 inmates broke out in ...

A prison riot involving 40 inmates broke out Wednesday, called a mass casualty incident by authorities. Six people suffered wounds, and five prisoners were taken to UC Davis Medical Center or ...

In November 2024, 17 incarcerated people were killed in a massacre in Guayaquil’s Litoral Penitentiary, the first such event since a surge of prison massacres between 2021 and 2023 that claimed over ...

Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] A prison riot Wednesday involving dozens at California State Prison, Sacramento, left five inmates hospitalized in a mass casualty incident, authorities said.

The high-security wing at Waikeria Prison suffered $50m worth of damage during the five-day riot over the 2020/2021 New Year. Photo / Brett Phibbs A prisoner involved in the destructive Waikeria ...

Ms Beal was asked if she was concerned Scotland could see the return of prison riots was the case in Barlinnie, Peterhead and Perth prisons in the late 1980s and early 1990s. "Of course," she said.