Clashes are common in Mexico's notoriously overcrowded and corrupt prisons At least 16 inmates have been killed after a riot broke out at a prison in central Mexico, authorities say. Five others ...

Scores of police were deployed to regain control after the deadly fight A fight between rival gangs in a prison in Mexico has left six inmates dead and at least nine injured, officials say.

President Guillermo Lasso had declared a state of exception Wednesday for 60 days, effective in the country's entire prison system. Lasso has traveled to Guayaquil to oversee the situation from a ...