Prison riot in Honduras kills 46 as MS-13 ... measures during a national "state of exception" that allowed his government to build a massive 40,000-occupancy super prison and make over 60,000 ...

Gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras locked the survivors of a deadly massacre, in which 46 women were killed in their cells, and set them on fire, officials said.. Violence erupted in ...

Honduras has a history of deadly prison incidents, with 18 inmates reportedly killed in a gang fight in a penitentiary in 2019, and more than 350 dying in a fire in 2012.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The president of Honduras has announced the creation of a new 20,000-capacity “megaprison," part of the government's larger crackdown on gang violence and efforts to ...

Honduras will return control of most of the country's penal system to the military police for the next year, the Central American country's presidential office said late on Wednesday, a day after ...

Honduran soldiers guard the facilities of the Women's Center for Social Adaptation (CEFAS) prison after a fire following a brawl between inmates in Tamara, Honduras, on June 20, 2023.

According to officials, a total of 72 prisoners took part in the attempted escape from the men's prison in the town of Tamara, about 19 miles (31 kilometers) from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many ...

Honduras has a history of deadly prison incidents. More than 350 died in a prison fire in central Honduras in 2012, and a fire sparked by a short circuit killed at least 103 inmates in 2004.

Gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras locked the survivors of a deadly massacre, in which 46 women were killed in their cells, and set them on fire, officials said. Violence erupted in ...

Gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras locked the survivors of a deadly massacre, in which 46 women were killed in their cells, and set them on fire, officials said. Violence erupted in ...