One of the inmates with a gun held out for about three hours, protected by 20 fellow prisoners, officials said.

Security forces were guarding a prison in southern Mexico on Friday where seven inmates were killed in a riot a day earlier.

Seven inmates are dead after a prison riot in southern Mexico, where inmates resisted transfers to other jails and fought police with guns and knives ...

A prison riot in the Mexican state of Tabasco left seven inmates dead and several injured, local reports said Thursday. The unrest occurred at the Social Reinsertion Center (CREST) in Villahermosa ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Seven inmates were killed in a prison riot in southern Mexico, when inmates resisting transfers to other jails fought police with guns and knives, authorities said late Thursday.

In September, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott revealed that more than 100 of the rioting migrants were suspected members of Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua. In an effort to prevent future violence at ...

VIDEO: At least two people killed, in prison riot in Villahermosa, Mexico https://t.co/Y84v64O9wC pic.twitter.com/DkfiWSO7ff ...

Mexico's largely antiquated, over-crowded and poorly guarded prisons have been the scenes of frequent riots and uprisings. In October, 16 inmates died during a prison riot in the northern Mexican ...

Notorious drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén has been returned to Mexico after serving a U.S. sentence and was quickly re-arrested and sent to a maximum security prison to face Mexican charges.