MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The rounding up of thousands of suspects in Mexico's drug war has left the already unruly prison system overwhelmed with jailbreaks and struggling to contain deadly riots ...

The spiraling unrest at the Tuxpan prison in eastern Mexico led to state forces intervening to restore order. Inmates were ...

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 ...

Like a scene out of a Tim Robbins movie, 132 inmates escaped from a Mexican prison after digging a tunnel ten feet deep through the floor of an old carpentry workshop and cutting the fence to open the ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s security minister said Tuesday that it had sent another 37 members of Mexican drug cartels to the United States, as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure on governments ...

Daniel Rodriguez is a free man. The UFC welterweight recently secured his release from a Mexican jail after being imprisoned for eight months due to an arrest at the border when he was caught in ...

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 ...

MONTERREY - Dozens of people were killed in a riot and blaze at an overcrowded prison in the northeastern Mexican city of Monterrey early on Thursday, local media reported, days ahead of a planned ...