Six detainees, aged between 12 and 17, climbed onto the roof of the Canning Vale youth prison on Monday. Three spent the ...

A Middle Tennessee prison is on lockdown after a riot broke out overnight at the facility injuring at least three inmates and one correction guard, officials said. The melee took place at the ...

Four inmates were injured in a riot at California State Prison, Sacramento, on Monday, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Officials said the riot happened in the ...

HARTSVILLE, Tenn. - District Attorney Jason Lawson of Tennessee’s 15th Judicial District announced 12 inmates have been charged for their role in a riot at the state’s largest prison earlier in June.

A riot in a prison northeast of Nashville was contained overnight, officials say, and all prisoners returned to their cells after officers deployed chemical agents into the prison yard. The Trousdale ...

TUXPAN, Mexico (AP) — Authorities in the Mexican state of Veracruz on Sunday said they have restored order in a prison where seven inmates were killed and 11 were injured in a riot that broke out the ...

A riot in a prison in southern Ecuador has killed at least 31 inmates, according to prison authorities. In a statement released on Sunday, Ecuador’s SNAI prison authority said 27 of those found dead ...