In January, a series of coordinated riots across multiple prisons led to the hostage-taking of 150 prison guards. The prison violence reflects Ecuador’s deteriorating security. The Andean nation ...

Guards, especially "good" guards with records ... the people who are trying to find out how to cure the epidemic of prison riots. 1. Convicts, however many exceptions there may be, are generally ...

he was sent to Attica during the uprising to represent the governor and to help quell the riot and appease the inmates. Frank Smith was an inmate at the prison and acted as a guard during the ...

Another three guards rushed over to help and were also ... 40 “homemade sharpened” weapons were recovered from the prison.

He told BBC Scotland the riot began after an inmate had ... but then the "whole hall joined in". Peterhead Prison Museum The two prison guards were taken hostage by a group of prisoners as the ...

A fight among inmates has left at least 15 people dead and 14 injured at Ecuador's largest prison, authorities said Tuesday. The Litoral Penitentiary in the coastal city of Guayaquil has been the site ...

Another prison riot in Ecuador Monday evening has left at ... Also suffering consequences from the violent actions was a prison guard, the authorities said. Ecuador's National Service of Integral ...

At least eight people have been killed and 52 injured after a prison riot in Sri Lanka which saw guards clash with inmates, officials have said. The inmates had launched protests amid a surge of ...

Traces of black soot still mark the facade of the Regina Coeli jail, a reminder of the latest riots in Rome's infamous ...

The number of inmates killed in a riot in Ecuador’s largest and most dangerous prison rose to 17, authorities said on ...