Mexico's lower house of congress approved a bill on Tuesday to prevent, investigate and punish extortion with prison terms of ...

That deadly Mexican prison riot on Sunday was no random act of violence but rather a calculated escape plan carried out with the help of guards, authorities said, taking a lot of the power out of one ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- More than two dozen inmates pulled off a brazen prison break from a Mexican prison and now 14 of those escapees are reportedly still on the run. It happened late Wednesday at a ...

At least 44 inmates at a prison just outside Monterrey, Mexico, are dead after a riot broke out in the early morning hours, Reuters is reporting. It began at 2 a.m. as a fight in the high-security ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A 44-year-old Mexican national with a felony criminal history has been sentenced to federal prison after illegally reentering the United States. Juan Humberto Lara Molina will ...

Two murder convicts who escaped from an upstate prison last year and were on the run for weeks had planned to go to Mexico and live under different names, investigators said in a report released ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- A fight Monday among inmates at a prison in the border city of Matamoros left at least eight prisoners injured, some of them gravely, authorities said. Tamaulipas state ...

Inmates protested prison conditions tied to a criminal group they say operates inside the facility Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025.