Organized Crime Controls Most Prisons Says Mexico's National Human Rights Commission The Mazatlan Messenger
go to original July 11, 2013

México’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) said in its report for 2012 that organized crime controls 60% of the country’s prisons, which indicates that the escape of prisoners is linked to these groups and corruption. The reported noted that most of the prisons in México have a population that is 25.8% over their capacity.

The CNDH report states that in most of México’s prisons there is a lack of security and control, overcrowding, drug trade, alcoholism and abuse of prisoners, saying that the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) described México’s prison system as “one of the most backward and neglected components of public safety.

According to the SSP of the total prison population 227,000 are males (95.3%) and 11,000 are female (4.7%).

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