Prisons persist as centers of criminal command and call centers for organized crime groups, a weak point that justifies the ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- A fight Monday among inmates at a prison in the border city of Matamoros left at least eight prisoners injured, some of them gravely, authorities said. Tamaulipas state ...

Mexico's deadliest prison brawl in many years was a bloodbath in which inmates attacked each other with hammers, cudgels and makeshift blades, authorities said Friday, underlining yet again the power ...

That deadly Mexican prison riot on Sunday was no random act of violence but rather a calculated escape plan carried out with the help of guards, authorities said, taking a lot of the power out of one ...

A young Texas oil field worker has spent the past nine months locked inside one of Mexico’s most violent prisons after unknowingly crossing the border during what his family described as an “honest ...