Tennessee prison riot contained with help from extra law enforcement, sheriff says 02:49. A riot in a prison northeast of Nashville was contained overnight, officials say, and all prisoners ...

A grisly riot at a women’s prison in Honduras Tuesday left at least 41 women dead, most burned to death, in violence the country’s president blamed on “mara” street gangs that often wield ...

He’ll serve his sentence alongside Chad Daybell, the child murderer and husband of “Doomsday” cult mom Lori Vallow, as well ...

The riot ended after the inmates freed the last of the 12 prison staffers they had held hostage, Valois said. More from CBS News Ecuador's top drug lord agrees to U.S. extradition after being captured ...

The riot in northern Ecuador left at least 40 inmates dead and more than a dozen injured. It’s the latest blood bath inside the country’s troubled and overcrowded prison system.

WAYCROSS, Ga. — A week after a bloody riot, a South Georgia prison remains on lockdown. But new video continues to surface showing a situation that both guards and inmates say is a powderkeg ...

Relatives of prisoners await news after a bloody prison riot Monday in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, Brazil. Michael Dantas / Reuters Jan. 2, 2017, 3:06 PM EST / Updated Jan. 3, 2017, 8:41 AM ...

Two guards and three inmates were injured in a riot that broke out at a south Georgia prison late Saturday, according to reports. The disturbance at Ware State Prison in Waycross started around 10 ...

The smell of burnt mattresses still lingers in the corridor leading to L Block. Beyond the iron bars, trash and debris line walls. The mess of riot-scarred Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is ...

District Attorney Jason Lawson of Tennessee’s Fifteenth Judicial District announced 12 inmates have been charged for their role in a riot at the state’s largest prison earlier in June. Their ...

On Sept. 9, 1971, a four-day uprising of more than 1,000 prison inmates began in New York state’s Attica Correctional Facility, leading to the deadliest prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates t… ...

Photographs of the 1987 Peterhead Prison riot are going on public display for the first time. BBC Homepage. ... "It's in the past - I never thought it would come into the news again," he says.