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Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- Authorities in Venezuela are fighting to regain control of a prison complex where armed inmates and troops have been clashing for days. Some 2,500 inmates have been transferred from the Rodeo I prison to other prisons, Venezuelan Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami...

GUATIRE, Venezuela – Thousands of National Guard troops stormed a Venezuelan prison Friday seeking to disarm inmates days after a bloody riot, setting off gunfights with resisting inmates that left at least one soldier dead and 19 wounded. Bursts of gunfire erupted inside the El Rodeo I prison...

Five inmates have been charged in the slaying of another inmate at the maximum security Edmonton Institution earlier this year. Gyozo Victor Barasso, 45, was found stabbed to death in his cell on Feb. 26. Two inmates are charged with first-degree murder; another three inmates face charges of...

Angola, Louisiana Prisoners in southeastern Louisiana are helping to fill sandbags and patch up levee holes along the swollen Mississippi in an all-hands-on-deck effort to keep the mighty river at bay. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, parts of the sprawling prison...

New York (CNN) -- One hour of recreation a day. Veal patties and noodles for dinner. New York's well-known Rikers Island jail complex has been featured in films, television shows and documentaries, but life on the other side of the bars appears less than glamorous. A number of well-known or...

A minimum security prison near Winnipeg was evacuated Tuesday after contractors ruptured a gas line into the institution. The Correctional Service of Canada said in a news release that the line at Rockwood Institution was ruptured about 2:30 p.m. CT. All gas lines to the prison were turned off...

Government spending on programs to help re-integrate inmates back into society once they've served their sentences is not keeping pace with spending to build more jail cells, CBC News has learned. According to a CBC News analysis of data from Correctional Services of Canada (CSC), the...

-- Eleven inmates died in a fight at a Mexican prison Tuesday afternoon, the public safety ministry in Durango state. The dead inmates appeared to have stab wounds, but prosecutors had not determined an official cause of death, a ministry statement said. The fight occurred at the same prison...

A judge will bring at least 41 guards to trial following a mass jailbreak from a prison in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico's Attorney General's office posted on its website Tuesday. The men and women will face charges for their alleged role in the escape of 153 inmates from the...

A view of the bordering bridge between Nuevo Lardeo, Mexico and Laredo, Texas, on July 8. Mexico City, Mexico -- At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico's northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo, Notimex reported, citing an official. The secretary of public security of...

By The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa prisons could soon be stocking prison-made toilet paper to save taxpayers money and provide jobs to inmates. The Des Moines Register newspaper reported on Thursday that inmates at two Iowa prisons are testing a single-ply tissue processed at a...

39 die in Mexican violence MAZATLAN, Mexico, (UPI) -- Twenty-nine inmates were killed in a prison melee and at least 10 police officers died in shootouts Monday in Mexico, authorities said. A spokesman for the Sinaloa state attorney general said 29 prisoners were either shot to death or...

Canada seeks to end inmates' benefits OTTAWA, (UPI) -- Canadian lawmakers are considering ending Old Age Security and other benefits received by federal inmates, a Cabinet minister said Tuesday. Human Resources Minister Diane Finley said in Ottawa the issue of inmates over 65 years old and in...