Private prisons in the United States

Police regain control of Ecuador prison after riot carnage

Police gained control of an Ecuador prison on Sept. 30 where rioting has left at least 118 inmates dead, some of them decapitated, as rival drug gangs went to war armed with guns and grenades.

Another 86 inmates were wounded, six of them critically, according to Ecuador's prisons authority, in one of the deadliest prison battles in South American history.

Beatings, Deplorable Living Conditions at Bulgaria's Boytchinovtsi Juvenile Prison - AFP

Agence France-Presse (AFP) has devoted a publication to the appalling living conditions and the complaints of repeated beatings at the Boytchinovtsi Correctional Home for juvenile prisoners.

The article, which is accompanied by a video, has reached German and Romanian media outlets.