According to the account provided to EFE, police reinforcements arrived at the facility and used "rubber bullets," "pepper ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least 27 inmates were found dead from asphyxiation Sunday at a prison in Ecuador where a riot broke out that left four others ...

After hundreds of Ecuadorean inmates were killed in prison riots in 2021 and 2022, President Daniel Noboa made restoring ...

Jimmy Trammell was killed in a prison riot just three days before his scheduled release after ten years. A gang-related sidewalk fight left three inmates dead, 13 hospitalized, and forced an emergency ...

Authorities at a prison in Ecuador's El Oro province said that they found at least 27 individuals on Sunday afternoon who had died from asphyxiation caused by "immediate death by hanging." ...

For the second year in a row, Brazil has witnessed a deadly prison riot on the first day of the year. A death toll of nine has been reported from the central state of Goias. One inmate was decapitated ...

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 ...