Mexico's lower house of congress approved a bill on Tuesday to prevent, investigate and punish extortion with prison terms of ...

That deadly Mexican prison riot on Sunday was no random act of violence but rather a calculated escape plan carried out with the help of guards, authorities said, taking a lot of the power out of one ...

Two murder convicts who escaped from an upstate prison last year and were on the run for weeks had planned to go to Mexico and live under different names, investigators said in a report released ...

The Trump administration's top justice official Pam Bondi hailed a "landmark victory" Monday as Sinaloa drug cartel cofounder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada changed his plea to guilty, meaning he faces life ...

The prohibited goods were removed by authorities. — -- Mexican authorities discovered "luxury cells" inside a prison in the northern state of Nuevo Leon after they went in to investigate a deadly ...