QUITO (Reuters) -A day of violent rioting at a prison in southwest Ecuador on Sunday caused the deaths of at least 31 inmates, ‌the country's prisons agency said. Twenty-seven prisoners in port town ...

Security personnel arrive at the Litoral Penitentiary after a riot in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 14, 2023 [Vicente Gaibor del Pino/Reuters At least 17 people have been killed in a prison riot in ...

Aug. 4 (UPI) --At least seven inmates are dead and 11 people injured in a riot that broke out at a Mexican prison, according to authorities, who said they have restored control over the facility. The ...

Marylynn Roper is standing by in Santa Fe to anchor our coverage of the first anniversary of the penitentiary riot that occurred exactly 1 year ago today. The event, of course, shocked all of America ...

QUITO/GUAYAQUIL, Feb 16 (Reuters) - After hundreds of Ecuadorean inmates were killed in prison riots in 2021 and 2022, ...

Fatal prison riots were nearly a monthly occurrence in Ecuador in 2021 and 2022 as the nation's jails became a microcosm of a wider surge in drug-related violence rocking the country.