President Bernardo Arevalo issues the order after at least seven police officers killed in riots and hostage-taking.

Guatemala's president declared a state of siege on Sunday after security forces freed dozens of prison guards held hostage by ...

Two inmates described as “suspected assailants” are being investigated in connection with a fatal attack at a facility in ...

A New York prison guard accused of failing to intervene in the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to reckless ...

Auburn, N.Y. - Two men who troopers say assaulted officers at Auburn Correctional Facility have been arrested, State Police ...

An inmate in a Solano County state prison is suspected of killing another incarcerated man, the California Department of ...

A prosecutor has told a jury that a prison guard should be convicted of manslaughter for failing to intervene in the brutal ...

A guard and about a dozen inmates at Washington State Prison in Davisboro were taken to a hospital, according to authorities.

Two days before three inmates were killed and 12 inmates were injured, a 30-year-old inmate was found dead at the Washington ...

Robert David Pompa is currently serving time for murder and battery. According to the Idaho Department of Correction, he ...

A corporal at a maximum-security prison was left injured after an inmate serving a murder sentence attacked him.

Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer ...