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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 ...
Prison riots in Mexico (8 P) Pages in category "Prisons in Mexico" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
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.
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 ...
The Mexican police force often do not investigate crimes, will generally randomly select someone to be the guilty party then fabricate the evidence. [37] This issue is a major problem throughout Mexico as many of the actual police force are the ones involved in the crimes or are trying to cover up their poor police work. [38]
Mexican authorities said on Sunday at least 14 people died in an armed attack at a prison in the northern border city Juarez and two more died during a later armed aggression elsewhere in the city.
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]