At the Springer Correctional Center in northern New Mexico, women inmates are getting hands-on training in wildland ...

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 ...

Four suspects were arrested and nine people kidnapped by the gang were freed following the clash in Sinaloa, officials said.

The state has been slow to spend millions of dollars for treatment in jails and prisons, legislative analysts said Wednesday.

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 ...

The most violent prison riot in US history happened at the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe. Thirty-three prisoners ...

A Las Vegas woman convicted of trafficking crack cocaine is headed to prison for violating the terms of her probation.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It is the end of a legal saga for the New Mexico Corrections Department, more than a decade after mistakenly releasing a man from prison, who eventually murdered an ...

A Mexican woman who spent 18 years in prison in the United States for the death of a minor was released on the order of a Texas judge, according to Mexico's foreign ministry, which has said there were ...

An Albuquerque, New Mexico, man was sentenced in Johnson County court to nearly 52 years in prison for his role in the 2023 ...