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VIDEO LINK A riot sparked by a gang inside Paraguay’s largest prison left at least six prisoners dead, including three who were decapitated. The incident unfolded February 16th, 2021 after hundreds of inmates armed with knives took 18 guards hostage, including eight who were on-duty, at the...

A fierce battle between prison gangs in the coastal city of Guayaquil killed 116 inmates and injured 47, according to Ecuadorian officials. Police Commander Fabian Bustos told reporters that a police and military operation had regained control of the prison after five hours. He said several...

More than 50 young men were killed during this prison riot in Brazil.

Police in Guatemala say at least seven prisoners have been killed during a fight between rival gangs in a jail in Quetzaltenango. Most of them were beheaded as members of the Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs attacked each other. The prison, 200km (125 miles) from the capital, was built to...

A riot erupted at a prison in central Venezuela yesterday, leaving at least 40 people dead and 50 more injured, including a national guard officer who was wounded by an explosion and the warden, who suffered a knife wound, authorities said. The upheaval at the Llanos penitentiary on Friday...

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The Carandiru massacre took place on Friday, 2 October 1992, in Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, when military police stormed the penitentiary following a prison riot. The massacre, which left 111 prisoners dead, is considered a major human rights violation in the history of Brazil.

Seven police officers have been killed in riots at a prison in Mexico, according to Mexican officials. The deaths occurred during an operation to quell an uprising, they said. It happened in the La Toma prison in Amatlán de los Reyes in the eastern state of Veracruz between Saturday night...

Outbreak of violence in Acapulco is one of the worst in recent years and comes during visit by US homeland security secretary John Kelly. At least 28 young prisoners are corpses after brutal prison fight on Thursday in the Mexican Pacific resort of Acapulco, in one of the worst outbreaks...

Around 60 people have been killed in a bloody prison riot sparked by a war between rival drug gangs in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, officials said on Monday, in some of the worst violence in years in Brazil's overcrowded penitentiary system. The head of security for Amazonas state...