Federal Agents Raid Another Mexican Prison
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Federal agents and soldiers seized the top-security Matamoros prison near the Texas border Wednesday, a week after six prison employees were slain and their bodies dumped outside the facility's gates amid growing violence in Mexico's prison system.
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Suspected Marxist rebels attack a prison in Colombia allowing at least 20 prisoners to escape.
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FBI agents Thursday raided the offices where the Cook County government keeps its hiring records.
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Former inmate Ashley Turner was not surprised to hear that investigators had raided a federal prison to arrest guards accused of having sex with inmates. She said she was pressured by guards at the same facility.
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Guatemalan security forces storm a jail that has been under prisoner control for 10 years, killing seven inmates.
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A violent crime spike in four cities led the Justice Department on Friday to dispatch additional teams of federal agents to combat guns, gangs or surging murder rates in Mesa, Ariz.; Orlando, Fla.; San Bernardino, Calif., and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Powerful drug gangs still control parts of Mexico despite a wide-ranging crackdown involving thousands of federal troops, a top security official said Thursday.
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A day after federal agents netted 1,300 meat plant workers in the largest immigration sweep in U.S. history, federal officials pledged on Wednesday to continue a crackdown on illegal workers and identity theft.
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Gang members take more than 100 people hostage in co-ordinated uprisings at two prisons in El Salvador.
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U.S. agents arrested about 195 people in more than a dozen states in a crackdown on illegal immigrants involving a maintenance business for theme restaurants like Hard Rock Cafe, officials said on Thursday.
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At least seven people are killed in twin attacks on government offices in the Mexican resort of Acapulco.
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A deadly blast in Mexico City raises fears that Mexican drug cartels are adopting the tactics of their Colombian allies
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Imprisoned gang members enraged by a tough new anti-crime law rioted and seized about 100 hostages at two Salvadoran prisons Thursday.
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Soldiers take control of Mexico's highest-security jail, amid fears drug gangs are planning a breakout.
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Federal police have launched several raids in recent weeks, resulting in dozens of high-profile arrests.
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Mexican police arrested dozens of people in a raid on a town where a frenzied mob beat and burned two federal police officers to death in an attack that shocked even this crime-hardened nation.
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Mexico's top-security jails are on maximum alert after the killing of six prison staff blamed on drug gangs.