The director of Ecuador's biggest prison was killed in an armed attack on Thursday, the second such killing in under two ...

An explosion outside the Litoral Penitentiary, Ecuador's most dangerous prison, left one guard dead and two injured on Thursday.

The national prison service, SNAI ... their release followed negotiations mediated by a priest. Since Monday, when Ecuador's President, Daniel Noboa, declared a state of emergency and ordered ...

Ecuadorian authorities Tuesday confirmed that the number of inmates killed in prison clashes nationwide ... freedom of assembly among inmates. Amid Ecuador's mounting violence, two of the ...

The United States has deported hundreds of migrants to El Salvador where they have been placed in the notorious CECOT prison ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the prison in El Salvador that took in migrants at the center of the ...

Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias El Fito, is the leader of the feared Los Choneros criminal gang in Ecuador and escaped prison in January of last year. He broke out during a wave of violence that ...

Prosecutors in Ecuador have secured an unprecedented string of convictions in a series of high-profile corruption cases, but ...

QUITO, Ecuador — The two instigators of the 2023 assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio were sentenced on Friday to 34 years and eight months in prison.