Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo placed the first stone Friday for a new maximum-security prison in the eastern department of Izabal that will hold more than 2,000 high-risk inmates, most of them ...

18th Street or “Barrio 18,” is one of the most notorious and violent gangs in the Western Hemisphere. The group started back in the 1960s after Clanton 14, one of the oldest Hispanic gangs in the city ...

A second inmate has been sentenced after pleading guilty to his role as a lookout during a deadly assault at the El Paso County Jail Annex three years ago. George Lopez, now 25, was sentenced to 15 ...

Guatemalan security forces regain control of prisons, subdue gang leader El Lobo President declares 30-day state of siege Schools canceled nationwide for safety reasons Seven police officers killed in ...

Anyone who has followed the devastating violence in California’s prisons knows that gang rivalries trigger a lot of the bloodshed. So it stood to reason that if the authorities could get members to ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A federal grand jury in New Mexico has indicted 11 alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang on racketeering charges stemming from the kidnapping and strangling of a ...

A reputed Barrio Azteca gang leader pleaded guilty for his role in the 2010 murders of three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Juárez. Eduardo "Tablas" Ravelo pleaded guilty to multiple charges, ...