Mexican army urged to take over prisons

[struggle4progress]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Inmates are carrying out vendettas inside prison walls, planning escapes and running their outside-world drug empires — even at Mexico's highest-security penitentiaries, prompting Mexico City's mayor to call for the army to intervene. <snip>

Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, an early presidential front-runner for the 2006 elections, said that "given the seriousness of the situation, the army should be brought in to temporarily take over the running of the prisons," a suggestion rejected by President Vicente Fox's government.

Jalisco Gov. Francisco Ramirez Acuna — whose state includes the second-highest security prison, Puente Grande — says he's had enough, and doesn't want any more dangerous federal inmates transferred to his state. <snip>

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-01-08-mexico-prisons_x.htm

[demosincebirth]

1. Sound similar to some of our prisons.