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Haiti’s National Penitentiary, already the target of mass prison break by gangs, catches fire
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFirst, armed groups attacked Haiti’s largest prison and orchestrated a jailbreak of nearly 4,000...
How do you close a maximum-security prison? As debate over Green Bay's prison roils, experts weigh...
Green Bay Press-Gazette via Yahoo News· 5 months agoALLOUEZ – Before he ever stepped foot in Green Bay Correctional Institution, Dant'e Cottingham, then...
46 women were savagely killed at a prison in Central America, after a rival female gang locked them...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA relative cries after she receives the body of a loved one who was killed in the riot.Emilio...
California prison on generator power after wildfires knock out electricity and fill cells with smoke
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA Northern California prison was on generator power for a second week and inmates were issued masks...
Women escape from a Haiti prison as gangs block roads and shoot at police trying to respond
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoDozens of female inmates were on the run in Haiti after escaping Thursday from the country’s only...
In troubled Mexico prison, inmates ruled their cell blocks
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA violent prison break in which 30 inmates escaped and 17 people — mostly guards — were killed has...
At least 51 dead in prison riot fire in Colombia, prisons agency says
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBOGOTA (Reuters) -At least 51 prisoners died after a fire started during a prison riot in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua, the head of the national prisons agency said on Tuesday, one ...
Armed gangs attack main prison in Haiti, releasing inmates
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 3 months agoArmed gangs attacked Haiti’s National Penitentiary on Saturday, allowing several notorious gang...
Experts describe the Alabama prison where an inmate died last month as an overcrowded...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDenarieya Smith.Courtesy of Linda and Alfagus Smith Parents of a man who died in an Alabama prison...
Community Hero Diyawn Caldwell helps Alabamians navigate a failing prison system
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYou can’t have prisons without walls. And those walls naturally separate us into two groups: those...