Police officers stand guard next to a fire department ambulance outside the main prison in Machala, Ecuador on September 22, 2025. [AFP] A prison riot caused by gang fighting in southern Ecuador has ...

QUITO, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A prison riot caused by gang fighting in southern Ecuador on Monday left 14 people dead and another 14 wounded, according to a local police chief. Prisoners in port town ...

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the ...

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the ...

At least 17 people have been killed in a prison riot in Ecuador, the second deadly prison brawl to hit the country this week. Thursday’s fighting broke out in the coastal city of Esmeraldas near the ...

Since inmates held several guards hostage during a riot in June at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, staffing changes and inmate reassignments have led to higher staffing levels than ever at the ...

There's a call for change at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility. Six more houses collapsed into the sea in the Outer Banks Barack Obama's favorability compared to Donald Trump's—New poll 'Sad ...

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Imagine a country where a hard-right populist president loses an election, urges followers on social media to rise up and storm government buildings, and is eventually handed a 27-year sentence for ...