Mr Stuart says prison riots were not uncommon at that time ... Jackie Stuart was taken hostage by prisoners for five days Mr Stuart says the prisoners were unpredictable and he did not know ...

Brazil's riot police have released 18 hostages held by armed inmates at a Rio de Janeiro jail, officials say. The unrest in the overcrowded prison in Japeri, which is effectively run by a criminal ...

Robert Douglass served as Counsel and later Secretary to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller from 1965 to 1972. At Rockefeller's request, he was sent to Attica during the uprising to represent the ...

followed a riot in a prison in the southern city of Adana, where prisoners took 21 guards hostage in protest against the planned transfer of fellow inmates to other jails and continued to hold ...

Syrian prison inmates in Hama rioted on Saturday for a second time this month, holding its director and a police chief hostage and demanding to be released, a monitor said. "A new riot started in ...

A four-day riot in a jail in the southern Turkish city of Adana ended Thursday after inmates released 13 prison guards they were holding hostage. "The riot is over and the hostages are freed ...

What Happened: The gangs are holding more than 100 prison guards hostage after taking control of prisons, as well as a TV station broadcast, according to a report from Reuters. One of Ecuador’s ...

A dozen prison riots have left more than 400 people dead since 2021. In January, a series of coordinated riots across ...

A dozen prison riots have left more than 400 people dead since 2021. In January, a series of coordinated riots across multiple prisons led to the hostage-taking of 150 prison guards. The prison ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The number of inmates killed in a riot in Ecuador’s largest and most dangerous prison rose to 17, authorities said Wednesday, a day after the goriest prison episode under ...