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Prisoners in El Salvador are kept in conditions that do not meet United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, also known as the “Mandela Rules.” And all of these prisoners ...

Simply by wiretapping the contraband cellphone of one convicted murderer, authorities were able to seize hundreds of pounds ...

Venezuelans describe ‘hell’ at El Salvador CECOT prison in Human Rights Watch report – Nation and World News | West Hawaii ...

The Guatemalan government announced Friday that it will ask the United States for an FBI team of experts to help recapture the leaders of the Barrio 18 gang who escaped from a prison. Last week, the ...

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Razor wire fencing surrounds the Idaho Department of Correction’s Idaho Maximum Security Institution, in Kuna. Sarah A. Miller Sarah A. Miller for ProPublica A Boise attorney resigned her law license ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - Seven criminal street gang members were tried, convicted, and sentenced for gang-related crimes and other crimes, according to Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Bethany A.S.

President Bernardo Arévalo called an overhaul of his country’s prison system an “absolute priority” after 20 inmates accused of belonging to the Barrio 18 group were found to have escaped undetected.

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo accepted the resignations of three top security officials Wednesday as the fallout from Sunday’s admission that 20 gang members had escaped from ...

Twenty members of a gang designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the United States have escaped from detention in Guatemala, a prison chief said Sunday. The members of the Barrio 18 gang ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs' legal team is requesting that their client be sent to FCI Fort Dix's Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) to serve his sentence. Former "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Joe ...