Mexico’s overcrowded prisons are plagued by riots, revenge killings and jailbreaks, and powerful gangs often hold de facto control inside. Last month, 28 inmates were hacked to death by their rivals at a prison in Acapulco.<\/p>\n
Nine inmates were killed as gang members stabbed and bludgeoned their rivals to death in a prison brawl in Mexico, authorities have said, the latest deadly violence in the country\u2019s jails. The fight broke out yesterday at a prison in Reynosa, a city near the US border in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo groups of prisoners were involved in a clash, using weapons such as clubs, stones and shanks,\u201d the state government said in a statement. \u201cNine inmates died and two were wounded.\u201d The riot broke out on visitation day, and guards \u201cfocused their efforts on protecting (inmates\u2019) families,\u201d it said. State police were sent in to bring the brawl under control, firing shots in the air to break it up.<\/p>\n
Mexico\u2019s overcrowded prisons are plagued by riots, revenge killings and jailbreaks, and powerful gangs often hold de facto control inside. Last month, 28 inmates were hacked to death by their rivals at a prison in Acapulco, a resort town on Mexico\u2019s Pacific coast.<\/p>\n
The prison system in Tamaulipas, a state racked by the deadly violence of Mexico\u2019s drug cartel wars, had already made bad headlines twice this year. In March, 29 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a prison in Ciudad Victoria. And in June, seven people were killed, including three police, when officers stormed the same prison to regain control from inmates who had been stockpiling guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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