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 ...

At least seven inmates are dead and 11 people injured in a riot that broke out at a Mexican prison, according to authorities, ...

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

Seven inmates died amid unrest at a prison in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, authorities said Sunday, with 11 other ...

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

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.

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.