Keith Octavio Rodriguez Padilla, referred to as "a prolific firearms' trafficker" by authorities, was sentenced in a San ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations took custody of a 35-year-old from El Salvador ...

After being at-large for 16 days, Mexican authorities have secured the arrest of Cesar Fabián "N", alias "El Ceviches," an ...

The Mexican drug lord who founded the Sinaloa cartel with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is in plea talks with federal prosecutors ...

El Salvador is now the safest country in Latin America. The astonishing reduction in homicide rates is a result of President ...

Pierre Jackson, 26, shot and killed 25-year-old Dejante Kennedy after breaking into an apartment rented by Jackson’s ...

More than one per cent of Territorians are set to ring in the New Year from inside a jail cell, meaning the NT has the second highest prison rate in the world behind El Salvador. Mr Varley said ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Thousands of prisoners should be moved to open prisons to tackle overcrowding and help prepare inmates for release, a former justice secretary ...

Some 6,000 prisoners broke free from a high-security prison in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on Wednesday, according to police authorities, as weeks-long post-election violence continues to rock ...

1:29 Mozambique protests: Police fire tear gas at biggest demonstration yet against disputed election At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital on ...

after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States. A short while later, Fabio Ochoa was again a free man. Ochoa arrived at Bogota's El Dorado airport on a deportation flight ...

ROME — Pope Francis made a visit on Thursday to one of the largest prison complexes in Italy, opening a special “Holy Door” for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, in what the Vatican said was the ...