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 ...

At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant handed down a lengthy prison terms of a combined 159 years. [Getty Images] An indigenous woman in Mexico was sentenced to six years and two ...

(The Center Square) – Texas state Rep. Jay Dean, R-Longview, is calling on President Donald Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn and others ...

After spending a month behind bars in a Mexican prison, a mid-Michigan has been released and are on their way back home.

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A notorious woman gang leader known for her brutality and wanted for at least five homicides in Ciudad Juarez was sentenced earlier this month by a Chihuahuan state judge to 50 ...

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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 ...

ABERDEEN, Miss. (WTVA) — A Mexican national will spend 10 years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine in north ...

MEXICO CITY - The job of prison warden carries peril in Mexico, a point made anew Wednesday when gunmen killed the deputy warden of a state prison where prosecutors recently shut down a well-stocked ...