GUATEMALA CITY – Officials in Guatemala say a riot at a prison for juveniles and adults has resulted in the death of a jail monitor and injuries to several other people. Sunday's incident came two ...

CUILAPA, Guatemala – Gunmen stormed a Guatemalan prison and shot to death four jailed police officers in a mafia hit aimed at stopping investigators from finding out who ordered the slayings of three ...

A new report says more than two-thirds of all jailed youths in Guatemala are “rehabilitated” while incarcerated, a rare bright spot for the country’s oft-maligned penitentiary system that also ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Rioting and fighting among inmates at a prison in western Guatemala caused the deaths of at least six prisoners, police said Wednesday. Authorities said the violence at the ...

Covered bodies lie inside the entrance area of the Pavon Rehabilitation Model Farm after a shooting inside the jail in Fraijanes, Guatemala, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Gunfire during a riot in a Guatemala ...

At least 17 people were killed in fights inside a Guatemala prison, taking violence levels to new heights within a penitentiary system plagued by overcrowding, gangs and corruption. Fighting broke out ...

GUATEMALA CITY – Authorities in Guatemala say the director of a prison where street gang members are held has been shot to death. The spokesman for the national prison system said Saturday that Jose ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Ten guards taken ...

ESCUINTLA, Guatemala (AP) — Seventeen prisoners were killed in a gang brawl inside an overcrowded Guatemalan prison, including seven who were decapitated, officials said Monday. Victor Mijangos, ...

Life on the run has turned to life in prison for Mario Rene Garcia Rivera. In November, he was found guilty of stabbing and killing 28-year-old Ismael Jesus Recinos Garcia in Attleboro back in 1991.

GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan tribunal sentenced newspaper founder José Rubén Zamora to six years in prison Wednesday in a money laundering case, concluding a trial that press freedom groups decried ...