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The prison situation in Mexico became so critical that the government announced in 2004 that they were reactivating the Islas Marias prison to transfer 2,500 prisoners from prisons all over the country. [1] On 18 February 2019, Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, signed a declaration closing the federal prison on the Islas Marías ...
Defunct prisons in Mexico (5 P) R. Prison riots in Mexico (8 P) Pages in category "Prisons in Mexico" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The prison was built between 1988 and 1990 under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and received its first inmates in November 1991. [4] [5] Of significant concern to Mexican authorities is the risk that the prison could be attacked from the outside as part of an organized prison break. [6]
Mexico's top security official announced Thursday what many Mexicans had suspected: the Jalisco drug cartel had long controlled the infamous “Puente Grande” federal prison where convicted drug ...
The Mexican Mafia gained significant power and control over illegal activities in the California prison system by using violence. The gang also extended its influence outside the prison system when members who were released from custody began taking control of narcotics distribution in parts of Southern California , primarily by " taxing " drug ...
Mexico's prison population had grown 4.4% under Lopez Obrador by 2021 from the year before, reaching 204,360, according to national statistics agency INEGI.
A federal prison in northern Mexico owned by BlackRock Inc <BLK.N> has gone into operation, the government said, as the world's largest asset manager expands further into infrastructure investment ...
Mexikanemi, also known as the Texas Mexican Mafia, is a Mexican-American prison and street gang established in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison system in 1984. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] It functions separately from the original California Mexican Mafia , and members consider themselves primarily tied to the area of Aztlán , formerly Mexican ...