More than 130 inmates escaped from a northern Mexico prison Monday, setting off a massive search effort by police and soldiers close to the U.S. border, authorities in the state of Coahuila told ...

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 ...

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's deadliest prison brawl in many years was a bloodbath in which inmates attacked each other with hammers, cudgels and makeshift blades, authorities said Friday, underlining yet again the power ...

Despite claims about various security enforcement operations throughout the country, Mexican authorities remain impotent in stopping extortion calls, with most of them being made by criminal ...