Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mural of Nelson Mandela, who spent many of his imprisoned years in an island prison in South Africa, adorns a gate in front of ...

A group of middle-aged and elderly Mexican tourists walked past a soldier wearing camo fatigues and holding a machine gun, then past a large sniffer Alsatian dog. They stepped onto the ferry at San ...

FILE - A journalist walks past a fallen section of fencing during a media tour of the now closed Laguna del Toro maximum security facility on the former Islas Marias penal colony located off Mexico's ...

Flights from the Riviera Nayarit will land in Puerto Balleto, the main town on Isla Maria Madre. Photo Credit: Riviera Nayarit Tourism Board The state of Nayarit has announced that beginning in ...

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Islas Marías is part of an archipelago made up of the islands Maria Magdalena, Maria Cleofas, and San Juanito. (photo by Valentin Fuentes) An image of Nelson Mandela, the emblem of freedom in the ...

MEXICO CITY — Bedeviled by killings, escapes and scandals at Mexico’s prisons, authorities are trying a number of novel steps to regain control, including using soldiers in armored vehicles to guard ...

MEXICO CITYMEXICO CITY — Mexican officials said ferries and cruise ships may soon be visiting the former Isla Marias prison, after the last island penal colony in the Americas was closed and turned ...

Six inmates from the last island penal colony in the Americas were recaptured at sea Thursday after they used buoyant containers and wood planks to try to swim to freedom in an escape reminiscent of ...