Texas Jail Uprising Injures Two Guards
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A standoff with 11 inmates at a maximum-security jail escalated into violence Friday, wounding two guards and the inmates as a SWAT team used tear gas and pepper spray.
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Authorities arrested a prison guard and issued a warrant for another on charges they helped an inmate escape from a maximum security medical prison over the weekend.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  US military police killed two detainees at Abu Ghraib prison early yesterday after a riot broke out in a tent camp at the sprawling facility west of the capital.
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SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Rival inmates fought each other with knives and sticks Wednesday at a San Salvador jail, leaving at least 31 inmates dead and two dozen injured, officials said.
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Suicide attempts are common at prisons operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where inmates step over one another in overcrowded jails
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ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES -- Rioting swept through a penitentiary housing 2,000 prisoners in central Argentina late yesterday, leaving at least three inmates dead and two dozen guards hostage, authorities said. Television footage showed rampaging inmates on the prison's roof wielding homemade knives while holding hostages, including one man in a bloodied shirt. Shots rang out as the rioters cast rocks ...
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GANG members at two Salvadoran prisons staged rebellions within minutes of each other today and are holding about 100 visitors and prison support staff hostage.
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U.S. military police killed two detainees at Abu Ghraib prison early Wednesday after a riot broke out in a tent camp at the sprawling facility west of the capital, a military spokesman said.
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Two prisoners were killed and five  wounded on Wednesday when a fight broke out among hundreds of  detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, the U.S. military  said.
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Two people - one a juvenile - are arrested after fuel pumps at a petrol station are damaged.
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Police used tear gas to force 46 inmates out of a prison area where they had barricaded themselves and set fire to mattresses and books, authorities said.
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Correctional officers at Pr. George's jail say facility is so violent they fear for inmate, officer safety.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - Two military guards implicated  in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal in Iraq were good soldiers  caught in a muddled chain of command at a chaotic prison, their  lawyers said at the start of pretrial hearings on Saturday.
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Rioting breaks out at a young offenders' institute two days after four prison officers were hurt and a wing destroyed.
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The state's corrections system is dangerously overcrowded and in crisis. A federal panel is about to render a judgment that could force open prison doors
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The second of two men who last month pulled off a daring escape from a county jail in New Jersey was taken into custody Wednesday, authorities told CNN.
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Hungarian authorities say 57 people were injured and 98 arrested when protesters clashed with riot police for a second night.