Death Toll Rises Following a Second Day of Nuevo Leon State Prison Riots Al Jazeera
go to original March 30, 2017

Update: The death toll from the riots in the prison of Cadereyta has climbed to four, with 21 injured (New China TV)

Mattresses were set ablaze, a pharmacy robbed and prisoners poisoned during two days of riots at a Mexican prison in Cadereyta that left at least two dead and 13 wounded.

The demonstrations in the northern state of Nuevo Leon began on Monday due to the use of new X-ray equipment at the entrance to the prison. Guards detained two women who tried to enter the jail with drugs hidden on them, according to state security spokesman Aldo Fasci Zuazua.

After the riot, Fasci said that pregnant women would not have to go through the X-ray machines.

About 40 inmates began protesting by blocking the corridors with blazing mattresses to prevent the passage of guards, Fasci said.

Prisoners also said they were being deprived of food and water.

...The state of Nuevo Leon and its surrounding territories have long been battlegrounds in Mexico's drug wars. The prisons nearby house many members of rival drug cartels that fight for control of local drug markets and smuggling routes to the United States.

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