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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]
La Mesa State Penitentiary is a prison in La Mesa, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. It is considered "one of the most notorious prisons in Latin America". [1] The prison was built for 2,000 inmates and had 2,500 inmates in the 1990s, but the number increased to over 7,000 by the 2010s. [2] Prisoners have committed offenses ranging from theft ...
A large-scale operation transferred about 200 "high-risk" inmates out of state prisons in Juárez and the Chihuahua City area to federal prisons in other parts of Mexico this week, authorities said.
Until 1950, this prison colony was known as a feared detention center, due to violence, disease, and forced labor. It is calculated that the total number of prisoners to be housed there is above 29,000. During the government of Ernesto Zedillo, the government decided to modernize the prison system and Islas Marias was deactivated. On 27 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...