Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least 27 inmates were found dead from asphyxiation Sunday at a prison in Ecuador where a riot broke out that left four others ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Inmates in cell block 3 bow their head as they listen to a soldier at the militarized Litoral prison,as part of the ...

(CNN) — A violent clash between rival gangs at a prison in the coastal city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, has left at least 17 dead, according to a statement from the National Police. “The situation stems ...

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 ...

Rioting that broke out at a prison in Ecuador has left at least 31 inmates killed and 30 others injured, prison officials said Monday. The rioting came when inmates at a prison in Machala, southwest ...

Violence inside Ecuador's prisons continues to spiral out of control. In recent days, two clashes between rival gangs left at least 31 inmates dead, including 27 who authorities said were killed by ...

All of the Ecuador prison guards and administrative employees who were being held by inmates were released, the country's prison agency said Saturday night. As nationwide civil unrest unfolded in ...

QUITO/GUAYAQUIL, Feb 16 (Reuters) - After hundreds of Ecuadorean inmates were killed in prison riots in 2021 and 2022, President Daniel Noboa made restoring order in jails one of the central pillars ...