One of the inmates with a gun held out for about three hours, protected by 20 fellow prisoners, officials said.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Seven inmates were killed in a prison riot in southern Mexico, when inmates resisting transfers to other jails fought police with guns and knives, authorities said.

N.M., petered out after those first miles above Santa Fe were constructed by convict labor from the Penitentiary of New Mexico. That section of the incomplete "prisoners' highway" still exists high ...