Conflicts between cartels and other organized crime groups in Mexico are often replicated in prison populations, which ...

Officials in the Mexican state of Veracruz say they have restored order in a prison where seven inmates were killed and 11 ...

Authorities in Veracruz were able to carry out a “coordinated operation” with support from the military to regain control of ...

A deadly riot in Mexico’s Tuxpan prison left seven inmates dead and eleven injured, following clashes between prisoners and ...

A deadly prison riot in Veracruz, Mexico, resulted in seven inmate fatalities and eleven injuries, authorities reported. The ...

The riot began after prisoners received threats from inmates accused of belonging to a violent criminal group.

A violent prison break in which 30 inmates escaped and 17 people — mostly guards — were killed has revealed a shocking level of self-rule by prisoners inside the prison in the northern Mexico ...

The northern Mexico prison where authorities suddenly transferred convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is rated as the worst in the federal penitentiary system for inmate conditions.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A women’s prison in Mexico plagued by food poisoning and poor medical care has now been hit by a wave of eight suicides in the last 4 1/2 months, authorities confirmed Thursday.

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 previous night.

The state government finally closed it in 2019. Mexico has a prison population of some 226,000 people, many held in overcrowded conditions in prisons without sufficient guards.