Ecuador Prison News Today

QUITO: Police in violence-plagued Ecuador arrested 68 people Sunday who had attempted to take over a hospital in the...

Rest of World News: Seven Colombian prisoners, accused of the assassination of Ecuadoran presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, have died in prison. The deaths oc

Once-peaceful Ecuador has descended into a wave of uncontrolled violence as if cursed by a malevolent fog. The security breakdown plaguing the country has spread from prisons onto the streets where bloodshed is now common.

Rest of World News: Ecuador's capital Quito was rocked by attacks with grenades and two car bombs overnight, followed hours later by inmates in six prisons taking hostage

Ecuador's capital Quito was rocked by attacks with grenades and two car bombs overnight, followed hours later by inmates in six prisons taking hostage 57 prison guards and police officers on Thursday, officials said.

QUITO, Sept 1 — Ecuador’s capital Quito was rocked by attacks with grenades and two car bombs overnight, followed hours later by inmates in six prisons taking hostage 57 prison...

The death toll from the weekend rioting at a prison in Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil has climbed to 18, the State Attorney General's

QUITO—At least 12 inmates were killed in an Ecuadorian jail amid a new clash between gangs, the SNAI ...

Six inmates found hanged in Ecuador prison-

QUITO—President Guillermo Lasso renewed a state of emergency throughout Ecuador's prison system on Monday, extending it for 30 ...