Gang Uprisings End at Salvadoran Prisons
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An uprising by some 800 gang members at two Salvadoran prisons ended peacefully on Friday following government promises to study complaints by inmates.
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Five inmates were killed and at least 25 were injured in gun battles at South America's biggest jail on Tuesday in what Peru's prisons chief said were gang turf wars.
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Inmates armed with hand grenades and guns rioted at a western Venezuela prison, killing at least 30 fellow inmates before hundreds of national guardsmen restored order, authorities said Wednesday.
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Off-duty and former police, prison guards, and firefighters are moving in to oust the drug gangs.
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Several protesters died on Tuesday when  Philippine security forces broke up a protest by thousands of  striking farmers and workers at a sugarcane estate owned by the  family of former president Corazon Aquino, officials said.
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Authorities sent 1,200 police into a Mexican prison on Monday to contain violence after a fight left four inmates dead, officials said.
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A ceremony to honour those who died in Chile's 1973 military coup ends in violent  clashes.
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Prison gangs have taken more than 100 inmates and visitors hostage in two prison uprisings in El Salvador, a prison spokeswoman says.
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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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Honduran gangs had killed before, leaving dismembered bodies and grisly messages in defiance of President Ricardo Maduro&#39;s no-tolerance campaign against them.
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There are concerns at the country's top maximum-security prison about a possible war between drug cartels and reports surfaced that some high-profile inmates might have been planning an escape.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Six guards were found  murdered outside a high-security prison on Mexico's border with  Texas on Thursday, in the latest bloody episode in weeks of  prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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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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BUENOS AIRES -- Rioting inmates at an Argentine prison freed all their hostages yesterday, ending a daylong siege that left eight people dead.
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FRAIJANES, Guatemala  - Guatemala is investigating accusations that police summarily executed seven prisoners during the takeover earlier this year of an infamous jail controlled by inmates for over a decade.
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U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police seized the last remaining gang stronghold in Haiti's largest slum on Wednesday, the latest in a series of military crackdowns aimed at stabilizing the impoverished and divided Caribbean nation.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- A riot taking place Wednesday at La Esperanza Jail, in Mariona, in the outskirts of El Salvador,left a toll of 30 dead and 28 injured, with six grenades exploding.