More than 11,000 Venezuelan troops raided and regained control of a notorious prison ... of their relatives or partners who moved into the penitentiary were able to roam freely throughout the ...

The violence broke out early Tuesday in one of the pavilions at Litoral Penitentiary in the coastal ... authorities said they had managed to regain control of the prison and carried out a large ...

The Special Management Unit of the Thomson penitentiary in Illinois is shutting ... This happened in a room that the prisoners told us they called the torture chamber. And these tight restraints ...

Hundreds -- if not thousands -- of inmates broke out of the National Penitentiary ... that area was entirely under control of gangs, according to the Haitian National Police.

Venezuelan authorities declared victory last year after several operations to retake control of prisons in the hands of gang leaders known as pranes, but violence and a humanitarian crisis in the ...