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The Palacio de Lecumberri is a large building, formerly a prison, in the northeast of Mexico City, Mexico, which now houses the General National Archive (Archivo General de la Nación). Known in popular culture as The Black Palace of Lecumberri, it served as a penitentiary from 1900 to 1976. It was inaugurated by President Porfirio Díaz. The ...
During the riots, prisoners set blocks of prison cells on fire, stabbed each other with knives, or were beaten. [1] Other prisoners used rifles and iron pins as weapons. [4] In addition, some prisoners were thrown from the second story of buildings. [4] Two of the 20 prisoners died at a local hospital, while the remainder died in the prison. [8]
Immurement (from Latin im- 'in' and murus 'wall'; lit. ' walling in '), also called immuration or live entombment, is a form of imprisonment, usually until death, in which someone is placed within an enclosed space without exits. [1] This includes instances where people have been enclosed in extremely tight confinement, such as within a coffin.
Five men were killed in a fight between inmates at a prison in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco, authorities said Friday. Four of the five inmates killed in the riot late Thursday were on ...
A family of six, including three children, were killed Friday by gunmen in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas in a town marred by militia violence. Julio Pérez, the mayor of the Chiapas ...
An ambulance leaving the prison after the first riot. In the first riot, sixteen inmates were killed and five others injured. [2] Fifteen of those dead died in the prison, the other died later at a hospital. [2] A state official said on 1 January that the deaths were variously caused by gunshot wounds, stab wounds, and being beaten. [2]
Mexico has released thousands of prisoners during Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's presidency as part of an effort to free those who have not committed serious crimes or were being held unjustly ...
The House of Death refers to a serial killing site in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, where executions were committed by members of the Juárez Cartel, some allegedly with the knowledge and participation of a United States undercover informant known by the pseudonym "Lalo", who had infiltrated the cartel.