Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Franklin County jail, opened in 1887 at 36 E. Fulton St. in downtown Columbus, was the scene of two inmate riots in 1966 over ...

William Harris, 22, was sentenced May 16 to a year in prison after agreeing to plead no contest to a reduced charge of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor. Harris initially had ...

MACON, Ga. — Another inmate who was involved in the riot at the Washington State Prison last weekend has died. Washington County Coroner Mark Hodges confirmed on Saturday that another offender ...

Twenty-three inmates escaped and one guard was killed after armed men stormed a prison in the Mexican resort town of Puerto ...

BEATTYVILLE, Ky. A wooden guard tower was the first target for inmates who rioted earlier this year at the Lee Adjustment Center. With a guard still inside, inmates used large concrete ashtrays to ...

Columbia, SC — As the hours dragged on during a riot at a South Carolina prison, bodies piled up on the sidewalk. An inmate inside watched in dismay as several fellow prisoners, two he knew well, lay ...

QUITO, Ecuador(AP) — Deadly rioting that broke out at a prison in Ecuador where inmates were set to be transferred to a new maximum-security facility has left at least 31 inmates killed and 30 others ...

A manhunt is underway in western Mexico after at least 23 inmates escaped during a riot at a prison in Puerto Vallarta following the killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, nicknamed “El Mencho,” the ...

A brawl recently broke out among inmates of the Cache County Jail. Now, police are mapping which inmates were involved.

According to the account provided to EFE, police reinforcements arrived at the facility and used "rubber bullets," "pepper ...