Prisons persist as centers of criminal command and call centers for organized crime groups, a weak point that justifies the ...

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 ...

A view of Mexico's lower house of Congress on the day it proposed adjustments to the details of a contentious reform that abolishes several regulatory bodies, aiming to ensure compliance with the ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY -- Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. was released Sunday from a prison in northern Mexico where he was sent in August after being deported from the United States. The boxer, son of Mexican ...