Honduras’ military began taking control of the country’s violent prisons on Monday, following a gang dispute that left 46 inmates dead at a women’s detention center last week, officials said ...

Nobody debates that Honduras’ prisons are in a shameful state. In Tuesday’s riot, incarcerated members of the notorious Barrio 18 gang slaughtered 46 other female inmates by spraying them with ...

Honduras witnessed a horrific massacre at a women's prison in Tamara, as authorities begin handing over the mutilated and burned bodies of 46 women to grieving relatives.

The worst prison disaster in a century also occurred in Honduras, in 2012 at the Comayagua penitentiary, where 361 inmates died in a fire. Most of the victims had never been charged or convicted ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Gang members in a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other women inmates by spraying them with gunfire, hacking them with machetes and then locking ...

Honduras, following the lead of neighboring El Salvador, plans to construct the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere. The progressive president, Xiomara Castro, aims to send the ...

Gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras locked the survivors of a deadly massacre, in which 46 women were killed in their cells, and set them on fire, officials said.. Violence erupted in ...

Honduras has a history of deadly prison incidents, with 18 inmates reportedly killed in a gang fight in a penitentiary in 2019, and more than 350 dying in a fire in 2012.

A forensic investigation would take place to dispel any speculation, Muñoz also said. At the women’s prison in Tamara last year, a riot broke out that killed 46 women.

Authorities in Honduras are beginning to hand over to relatives the hacked, burned corpses of 46 women killed in the worst riot at a women’s prison in recent memory.