Mexico Prisons

Prison Gunfight Erupts

AP | Posted 05.24.2012

MEXICO CITY -- State officials say three prisoners have been killed and six wounded in a gunfight at a prison in the violent northern Mexico border st...

Yoga Helps Mexican Inmates Find Peace, Curbs Violence

Posted 11.18.2011

At one Mexico City juvenile detention center, inmates are finding inner peace through an unlikely practice in a jail cell: yoga. Prison wardens re...

Peacocks, Prostitutes Found Inside Mexico Prison

AP | Posted 01.07.2012

Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Authorities say a surprise search at an Acapulco prison has netted two peacocks, 100 fighting cocks, 19 prosti...

Seven Killed In Prison Riot

Posted 12.13.2011

MONTERREY, Mexico -- Mexican security officials say seven inmates have died in a prison riot that may have been set off by the arrest of a top drug ca...

Massive Prison Break Frees 140 Inmates On U.S. Border

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

MEXICO CITY — Nearly 150 inmates escaped Friday from a state prison in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo, and authorities said the...

Mexican Prison Brawl Leaves 23 Dead

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.25.2011

MEXICO CITY — Twenty-three inmates were killed Wednesday morning in a brawl between rival drug gangs at a northern Mexico penitentiary, official...

Mexico's Prisons: Complete With Pizza Delivery, Prostitutes, And Rampant Drug Trade

nytimes.com | MARC LACEY | Posted 05.25.2011

MEXICO CITY The surveillance cameras captured it all: guards looking on nonchalantly as 53 inmates many of them associated with one of Mexico's most n...