Big-league Mexican drug traffickers imprisoned in the United States are contending that unnecessarily harsh conditions — locked up alone in ultra-high-security confinement — take a physical and ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The rounding up of thousands of suspects in Mexico's drug war has left the already unruly prison system overwhelmed with jailbreaks and struggling to contain deadly riots ...

Rioting inmates at a Mexican prison slit their rivals’ throats and beat them to death Thursday, leaving 28 dead and three wounded, officials said. Bodies were found strewn around the maximum-security ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Sixteen inmates were killed and five wounded in a prison fight in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, authorities said, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the ...

Ten inmates escaped in Mexico’s Caribbean beach resort of Cancun by jumping the prison wall, in the latest jailbreak to hit the country’s scandal-plagued penitentiary system. The inmates beat a guard ...