Mexico Prison Bar Found By Authorities

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Mexico Prison Bar Found By Authorities

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Some prisoners learn woodworking or license-plate making. But bartending?

A prison workshop in northern Mexico where inmates were supposed to be learning trades was found to contain a bar behind bars – complete with beer, vodka, tequila, and billiard tables.

Federal police and local authorities discovered the bar Monday at a minimum-security prison in the northern state of Chihuahua, the state attorney general's office said in a statement.

Seized from the site were 20 bottles of vodka, 12 bottles of tequila, and 200 beer cans. Police also found three guns, 20 cell phones, 180 individual doses of marijuana and 90 doses of heroin.

The prison's deputy director was fired Wednesday and prison guards are under investigation, said Jorge Chaires, a spokesman for the state's prosecutor for prisons.

Also Wednesday, guards conducting a routine check at a prison in the northern state of Tamaulipas discovered 17 inmates missing, the state's Public Safety Department said in a statement. The prison is located in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas.

Authorities later found a tunnel leading out of the prison from the laundry room, the statement said. The prison's director and eight guards were being questioned.

Security at Mexican state prisons is notoriously lax. Jailbreaks are common, inmates are often found to be directing criminal operations from behind bars, and corrupt guards are often found to be involved.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/inmate-bar-mexican-prison_n_866967.html

 

[Mr. H.]

I'm buying this round, bartender.

Make mine a Harvey Wallbanger.

 

[High_Gravity]

No wonder there are so many criminals in Mexico, their prisons are a joke.

 

[Nate]

No wonder there are so many criminals in Mexico, their prisons are a joke.

Most of the criminals in Mexico seem to be the ones running the country... It had to take some corrupt prison officials for this to happen and I guarantee that kind of corruption goes all the way up to Calderón himself.

 

[High_Gravity]

No wonder there are so many criminals in Mexico, their prisons are a joke.

Most of the criminals in Mexico seem to be the ones running the country... It had to take some corrupt prison officials for this to happen and I guarantee that kind of corruption goes all the way up to Calderón himself.

I am convinced the Cartels are running that country.

 

[Nate]

I agree, Joaquín Guzmán Loera(Sinaloa Cartel) is running that country! I mean, come on the son of a bitch has enough money to buy his own country!!

 

[High_Gravity]

I agree, Joaquín Guzmán Loera(Sinaloa Cartel) is running that country! I mean, come on the son of a bitch has enough money to buy his own country!!

The Cartels run the show down there, from what I understand the situation is the worst its been in Mexico for a while, its not even safe for Americans to travel to Mexico besides places like Cancun and Cabo San Lucas.