The death toll from the mass poisoning this week of inmates at a Venezuelan jail has risen to 35, a lawmaker said Friday, though prison officials insisted the tally was far lower. The incident is the ...

A prison riot has left at least 47 dead and 75 wounded in western Venezuela, a country where NGOs and inmates’ families regularly denounce unsanitary conditions, violence and overcrowding behind bars.

Hundreds of inmates at a prison in western Venezuela climbed onto the facility’s roof and set fire to mattresses and sheets during a protest against alleged abuse and shootings by prison guards, ...