Comayagua, Honduras News

Inside one of Honduras' most dangerous and overcrowded prisons, inmates operate a free-market bazaar, selling everything from iPhones to prostitutes.

Venezuelan government officials have transferred more than half of the inmates out of a trouble-ridden prison where gunfire recently erupted and where authorities reported two escape attempts.

Prosecutors are charging three people with stealing personal information from prison inmates and using it to claim more than $70,000 worth of illegal tax refunds from the state of Pennsylvania.

A human rights advocate said Thursday that negligence contributed to a higher death toll in Tuesday night's prison blaze, as new details emerge in the Honduras prison fire that claimed 353 lives A human rights advocate said Thursday that negligence contributed to a higher death toll in Tuesday night's prison blaze.