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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Mexico's Prisoners Face Extortion Fees to Live: Report

Posted by DD republished from IinSightCrime

Written by Elijah Stevens


 Prisoners in Mexico are paying enormous fees for essential needs and physical security, a news report says, highlighting the role of prisons in fueling illegal markets, corruption, and organized crime.

Mexican prisoners are paying between $150 and $300 per month for basic services to survive throughout their sentences, according to the BBC. In order to receive essential human needs, including drinking water and bathing, as well as protection, prisoners across Mexico pay fees to prison guards, officials and other prisoners.
In order to have a place to sleep and a blanket, for example, prisoners pay around $6. Prisoners also have to pay for every change of their sanctioned uniforms -- around $1.20 for each set. And in some prisons, 
inmates pay around $20 per day just to be counted on the official attendance list.
Communication with the outside world is also costly and difficult, as there are fees for phone cards as well as having a cellular phone, which can cost between $90 and $121. Additionally, families have to pay for visits, including individual fees for every door they pass through.
The profits from such fees are allegedly passed upwards to high-level officials, reported the BBC, although government officials deny this level of corruption.



InSight Crime Analysis

The high living expenses for inmates in Mexico reveal the poor conditions and systemic corruption that plagues prisons across Latin America.
The fees demanded for basic necessities and security have created complex and profitable prison economies that involve both officials and criminals alike. These payments, for instance, implicate officials throughout the prison system in illegal markets and extortion.
Concerns about corruption within Mexico’s prison system has grown recently following the arrest of Celina Oseguera Parra, the former head of federal prisons, and subsequent allegations connecting top officials to the incredible escape of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman from a maximum security prison earlier this year.

These fees also propel the activities of criminal organizations within and beyond the prison walls. According to a recent report from Mexico’s National Commission on Human Rights (pdf), approximately 70 percent of Mexico’s prisons are “self-governed” by gangs and cartels, an illicit system repeated across the region. The authority and profits gained through prison fees strengthen criminal organizations’ structures within the prisons and fuel their forces in the outside world.
As the BBC notes, the burden of prison fees often falls on the families of inmates. Such families, often already in socially and economically precarious positions, may be pushed further into poverty and possibly even organized crime by this system of prison extortions and predatory criminal activity.
Report done by InSightCrime  Monday, November 30, 2015

92 comments:

  1. I believe it . Even if known facts are exaggerated they are probably true . Sure there is some degree of corruption in all society but Just across the border it is systematically corrupt . I understood a few years back , in the border towns the low level police paid to be a cop . Because as a cop they could shake down people for cash . I decided decades back not to go back across . All governments have corruption but compare Mexico to the US , no comparison . A low percentage of police officers rob citizens here . Practically NONE . In Mexico , they all do . How many traveler from Mexico feel safer in Mexico than the US ? . Never heard of the police robbing them .
    The corruption in Mexico has always been and will always be .
    One gets bumped out and there are many many many ready to take his place . I think its genetic

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    1. We need to incorporate these practices in American prisons. Prison should bot be a place for you to be comfortable. Most of these prisoners deserve what they get. I live in Los Angeles and if I could Ibwould leave and go work in a Mexican Prison. They deserve no respect, afterall they kill and rape kids and innocent people.

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    2. Consider this, you have a wreck, it's your fault, you pay the cop off and leave, in the USA, you go to jail. There is an upside.

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    3. 10:50 it is not genetic güey, it is generic, engendered by 200 years of american imperialism, for the güeyes living in la republica bananera de mexico under the "democratic governments" the US carefully selects for us to "elect", they do noteave much food er for their own gorilla bananeros, they must feed themselves from the carcasses of their prisoners...like the jews, in NAZILAND, THE MEXICANS ARE NOT GUILTY OF THEIR SITUATION, IT IS THE FAULT OF THE AMIGOS FROM THE NORTH, they have the world all facked up, from one end to the other, the ol' US of A...

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    4. 8:50 ...you might go to jail for a car accident here but usually only happens if you are intoxicated..Now if i can get drunk in mexico and cause a crash and maybe harm or kill someone,and pay off the police and go home,what kind of tradeoff is that?

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    5. @2:03 You talk out your mouth about how bad the USA is, and yet every freedom you enjoy in the modern world is protected by the USA. You spout so much trash out your mouth, it's laughable. I suspect you could not protect yourself in any nation without the rule of law. Why don't you pick a place in some nation without due process and a bill of rights and go spout your crap there in the central plaza. Your ass would not last an hour until agents haul your liberal -kook -riddle -speaking ass off. I've seen the corruption first hand in Mexico every time I travel there from one end to the other over the twenty years of my journeys.

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    6. 2:03 pm
      Yep its all because of someone else . You are telling us that society south of the border is so dependent on the usa it is all the gringo fault . Man I hope there isn't to many more like you. Pull your head out of the caca and think what can I do for myself instead of my shit life is because of someone else .

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    7. 2:03,theres a lot of other countries in society besides the US that don't operate the way Mexico does so now whats your excuse?You should resent the so called 'Imperialism' its cash for your country.Canada doesn't get a handout from the US.Its just bad your countrys elite rob you blind [both in resources and handouts from other countries].Why blame the US?I can comment here because Im neither Mexican nor American.

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    8. 2:03 anytime there's a problem in the culture of a country, its the United states at fault. u have natural resources from one end to the other, scientists, academics, skilled craftsmen, etc, etc. all the ingredients to have a successful society. not to mention the richest neighbors right next door for. trading partners. but for some reason criminality spreads to the highest posts in the mexican society. but its our fault in the US. IF England or france or japan could trade geographic locations with mexico would they have the same problems? I don't think so. ur problem is in the mindset of ur society. not because rich americans want some coke on a friday night. get a grip.

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    9. The jews in the nazi camps depended on the nazis for their every breath, anything they needed, even their last shower...
      After having had successful lives all over the Reich without public aid or welfare, some even engendered great beloved leaders like half jew Adolph Hitler...
      --The US has had mexico at war with itself this last time since the 60's, there has been nobody else with the kind of evil history and dirty tracks and fingerprints for evidence like the US, with ambassadors,businessmen and "intelligence"invested in corrupting mexican politicians to cook their dirty deals in secret...
      --If you dirty nimcompoops want to deny low intensity engagements and the dirty tricks the US plays on the unsuspecting victims, under guise of friendship, it still does not change the FACTS, THE US plays always with loaded dice...

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    10. 7:09 Well said? or just the highest jumping and loudest barking dog getting a bone...ok...

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    11. All you pinche mojados complaining of the usa, I've always said that if you can't live here without complaining, get you ass back where you come from. Who would want to live in a fucked up country like mejico anyway. They come from mejico because that fucked country can't even feed them because all the corruption.

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    12. 7:27 Mexico has been at war with itself long before the gringos came over from Europe. It's most recent war from within didn't start in the 60's it was as soon as it got its independence from Spain. The evil comes from within Mexico not from the outside. You have such a twisted out look of the US you can't even see it. That's why the people of Mexico have so little civil rights and protection from the upper class. I literally laugh at most of your comments on BB, but hey everyone deserves some entertainment while at work.

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    13. Here you go Again, this is not about the murdering Aztecs or about whitey spaniards or brittish colonials bringing their black Mary's or their other fevers, (among them jungle fever), that almost killed off all the indians...
      --Before the mexican independence, there was ambassador Joel Poinsett stealing his discovery for santa, "poinsettias" he called his discovery, while he was conspiring to bring about "the mexican independence..."
      --cuetlaxochitl was the name of the Flor de Nochebuena, the mexican flower US ambassador Joel Poinsett baptized with his name for christmas...
      --the mexican revolution was also financed by the US, and the US also paid Pancho Villa to be their useful idiot, with 5 star US general blackjack Pershing, Quartermaster specialist helped by dugout doug and Patton among other great US military men, until Pancho villa bit them all in the ass for treason or whatever, but the US involvement is there...
      --For the 60's your US ambassador win scott was plotting the drug trafficking of today with the mexican governing narco-mierdocracia and the wholesale murdering of the opposition even if there wasn't any...
      --You can deny climate change all you want, you can not hide the shitty tracks of the US faults and sins all over the world they learned pretty well from their rat line nazis kissinger helped escape from Nuremberg trials and the hangman...

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  2. As a Texas criminal defense lawyer, some of my clients complain about the same thing when it comes to coercion from other inmates, not so much about the guards because the inmates are already being fleeced by the commissary and communication vendors, where ramen noodles cost 2 bucks or more and a collect call seems like overseas rates.

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  3. Holy shit and yeah youd have to pay for the ass wipe.Corruption is really deeply entrenched in that society!It would take 100 years to clean it up if they started today.I had heard years ago that you had to pay for your meals in prison there.Sounds like there is truth to that.

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    1. On the upside, if you have money, your stay in prison is completely different. Conjugal visits, movies, private rooms, cell phones , oh my !

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    2. The north vietnamese and the North Koreans at least would allow their prisoners to eat the worms around the hole on the ground latrines, maybe even roast them, for free, and eat some of the beautiful corn that grew on the top of their mass graves...unlike mexico...the recipient of billions and billions of dollars helicopters airplanes guns and weapons from the US to fight it's poor citizens...

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    3. 8:25 if you would go to work in a mexican prison, guess what, you are stupid, because in mexico prison guards get paid from very little to nothing, their income comes from whatever they scalp from the prisoners, and they get killed if they do not do as told by the prison cell bosses, so you must have your maff all full of poóp, estupiro baboso...on the US prison guards have big salaries, insurance, pensions, unions because the US robs everybody else and then borrows from anybody and their dog, the US vulture capitalists are not going to spend "THEIR hard earned" (or robbed, drug trafficked, stolen, privatized, offshored, black marketeered, foreign invested ) dollars on a bunch of mafioso US "prison guards" with union memberships...whooo!

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  4. Awe, If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Perhaps this will be a reverse incentive to make would be criminals want to stay out. Who ever said life was free?

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    1. Easy enough to say, what about those poor folks who get blamed for a crime they didn't commit and barely have the means to survive in the outside let alone the inside of prison... kind of a shortsighted comment

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    2. Anonymous Dec 2, 11:57pm. You have to understand that in Mexico they have a "guilty until proven innocent" as opposed to the USA, and the burden of proof is on the poor souls who by many, many means can be on this situation. Also, in Mexico there are is no jury, so your faith is decided by one person only. Someone who steals 2 pounds of meat from a store ends up doing more time than a murderer.

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    3. It is written here that 70% of the people in prison here are innocent. I believe that. I know a couple of them that in no way are criminals.

      Here is an example. I know a couple that live in a pueblo here, near Chihuahua. One day an Uncle came to visit them and offered to take them to the Oxxo. While there an employee noticed the vehicle as the one that was used to rob them the night before. The police were called. Her husband went into the Oxxo while she waited in the car with her Uncle, his friend. When the police arrived they arrested everyone in the car. They went straight to the prison near San Guillermo, Chihuhuahua. The State attorney gave them a fee to pay to get out of prison. The Uncle and his friend that did the robbery paid the fee and were out in 3 weeks. She did not have money and neither did her husband. The longer you stay the higher the fee gets. She spent two years in prison for just taking a ride in the car. She never got to go before a judge. They did not arrest her husband as he was not in the car when they came. You can pay your way free in Mexico the largest percentage of time. So the bigger the criminal, most of the time they get out quick. If you are poor and cannot afford an attorney or pay the fee you are stuck. There were actually 4 men in the car that robbed the store. They did not go after the others or do anymore research to dind out that she was not one of them. It was just easy to arrest those in the car and do not more. Not concerned to get the right people.

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    4. money in mexico is master . screw human rights issues, Chapo knows this very well.

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    5. 10:12,the Uncle should have had the decency to BUY his innocents neice out of jail.He had the $ to buy his way out.Im sure that robbery $ sure came in handy but her she wasn't involved therefore didn't have the $.

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    6. Dear Canadiana, maybe someone can help me out, but a Mexican friend told me an analogy regarding mexican culture and crabs in a bucket all climbing on each other to get out. The moment one crab makes it to the top, the others pull them back, and the one that make it Don't pull the others out.

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    7. 9:01

      You are dead right about that. But that is not out it works here. If you are a criminal money comes first before family. Look at Chapo. He has a beautiful wife withe children. He is screwing another women that comes to his jail cell. He could give a shit about the feelings of his wife. It is all self gratification. You can bet that the wife does not care much because she is living well with his money. So in both hers and his situation, money trumps morality and doing the right thing. I know of men that have left their families behind to go work in the USA. But they have a new family in the USA now and still send money and support and act like nothing has happened. Neither do the women as they want that money to keep flowing.

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    8. 8:40 if you call 'getting first to the table scraps and the bread crumbs: "making it" then you need a lot of help...
      --It is like the happiest gorillas get their bananas first on the banana republic...

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    9. 8:40 yeah, it is like peña nieto, the crab just trying to distinguish hisself by climbing to the top by being a fucking drug trafficker that murders his own partners to steal from them and from the people too, the dirty mexicans are trying to ruin his presidency because of envy and jealousness, just because he so pretty...and the "president" non pareil...

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    10. Mexico needs Rob Ford to run it.he will save it even if he really is a Hurst.

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  5. El Kelin Z-2 fue secuestrado en el mes pasado de Noviembre en Matamoros por el CDG?

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    1. Penso que aun estaba al mando o que??

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    2. Primeramente esta con los zetas y no ha entrado en Matamoros desde que salió del bote. Esta en los estados del centro esperando a que las golfas se sigan debilitando mas.

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    3. Segun. A su familia tambien. No retirement plan

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    4. Lo más seguro que los Golfos le pusieron una trampa. Como se la viven esos Golfos tramposos y rateros.

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    5. un rumor sacado de Breitbart. una fuente menos confiable que Blogdelnarco.

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  6. Wow wen u think yur life is finished n now this shit? Must be worse than hell

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  7. Latin American prisons, more specifically, Mexican are like falling thru the Twilight Zone and beyond.

    Can the UN get involved.

    First thing USA needs to do is get its citizens out of Mexican prison--a trade of Mexicans in US prisons. US does have an obligation given the conditions.

    US government is not what it use to stand for, but it is time for it to work for the good of its citizens and neighbors.

    Pope needs to go on a South American tour or move the Vatican to SA. Religion may be the only answer. Mexico for one has hit bottom. A shame--beautiful country and great gente.

    Maybe Mormons can get the job done--lol!

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    1. Religión is what started their downfall reverend.

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    2. Their dishonesty, immorality, violent tendencies and indifference started their downfall.

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    3. Well seems they didnt get religion the first time...

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    4. maybe they shouldve gotten religion the first time...

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    5. Behind the preachers, their crosses and their bibles were the lawyers with their laws and the soldiers with their swords...
      --The words of the Europeans had less value than the papers they were written on, eat promises at your own risk...it still applies today...

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  8. Well they earned the right to be there, going to prison ain't NO happily ever after trip. Hahahaha

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    1. How do you know they earned the right to be there? How many of them do you personally know? Have you ever heard of someone in prison being innocent? It happens more than you know.

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    2. Whenever I read a statement like Anonymous posted December 3, 2015 at 6:17 AM I sincerely hope they go to prison and get a chance to experience the suffering they are laughing at.

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  9. Used to be Mexican jails were safer than up North, but insane violence, total corruption and impunity, and an indifferent U.S. government has pushed the country into an abyss. A hundred years to eradicate corruption? There will be nothing left worth claiming.

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    1. Must have been longer than 10 years +. I dated a guy about 16 years ago who's dad was in prison in tamaulipas and even then he had to pay for even just the simplest necessities.

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    2. What the hell does the US government have to do with this mess? Mexicans are responsible for Mexican corruption in Mexico, you can't cure stupi!

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    3. ..obviously 6:46 ,PM, you illustrate your point ...

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  10. Maybe thats why they let chapo go.He didn't wanna pay the jailers to let him live there and since he was setting a bad example for the rest let him go

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    1. He just didn't want to pay the rent anymore.

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  11. Is there 1 person not corrupted in Mexico ?

    What's wrong with these people ?

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    1. Mexico is a good place and arguably better in many respects than your shithole of a country with gun massacres as cheap as shit. shut your trap ok?

      Long live Mexico
      Long live all Latinos

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    2. Its in the mexican culture and part of its ethics to be corrupt like they say down there el ke no transa no avansa

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    3. "shithole of a country with gun massacres"

      De que estan hablando? Tamaulipas, Sinaloa, Chihuahua...and that was just in the last couple of weeks.

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    4. Motis 1:58am, ur mentality is why mexico is like it is. I live in Pennsylvania & i guarantee u i can walk down any street in any town in my state & not worry about getting kidnapped or shot. can u say the same in mexico? And any gun massacres that have happened were caused by jealous extremists who also blame the US for everything wrong in the world. But mexico is a beautiful place. at least we can all come down there to go surfing. right??????

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    5. Be careful, as soon as motis get to the worm at the bottom of the mescal bottle, his demeanor changes, and he too looks for his firearm all along rationalizing the righteousness of blasting skyward or at anyone he despises.

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    6. @123, been to Philly, lately? The City of Brotherly Love is scarier than S.Bronx.

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    7. The city of brotherly "love" needed bad to depopulate philly, make the rich run away from their drugs, guns and gangs and hó infested neighborhoods, they needed the empty lots to renew and rebuild the city for "more moneyed gentrification" and to privatize "city and state owned" properties the people of Philly paid for...namely sports complexes, museums, parks, public schools...after it is all privatized, the state will finance the private owned rebuilding and will pass the bill on to the people of the "great state"...again...like some cheap coahuileño dogs...
      Wonder where mexican politician crooks learn their tricks...

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  12. They're prisoners...duhhhhhhh...

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  13. Come EPN. Sort this out. Clean up your country. It's become a joke and you're perpetuating the joke. On both side of the prison bars, MX is turning into a hell-hole and you have been vested the responsibility to fix it. These hand grenade and chainsaw slayings are worse than even ISIS. Making prisoners pay to live means your systems have totally failed. I start to believe as I said elsewhere, US needs to invade MX on basis its a completely failed state that poses threat to safety of US, let alone all of MX society. I always wanted to go there but sadly never will.

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  14. Dear Mr. President,
    Are you getting tired of this Cartel mess in our country?
    We had to move to Houston. I know my kids are not coming back.
    They are great kids and could have stayed in their country and done great things for Mexico.

    When are you going to stop the killing and kidnapping of innocent people?

    I am really sick of you and the corrupt politicos.

    Best regards,
    Paco

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  15. 150$ to300$, a month to survive, that's bull. Most prisoners are flat broke 0$, and have no money, so for them to pay that money is just untrue.

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    1. Money isn't the only currency in jail, buddy.

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    2. It is not like the warden is going to put anybody's stomped ass in the bank...
      --But there is plenty of business that makes people money from the prison business and who is going to care about a convicted criminal sicario narcoterrorist?
      His family and the cucarachas that's for sure...
      --fack undue punishment and humanitarian pretenses, even on the saintly US, queendom of forced male prison rape...

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  16. UK and US prisons and jails are probably among the few countries that don't have the "pay as you go" system for food and orher necessities.

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    1. Yeah most prisons only feed u just enough. So if u got no money. U sleep hungry.

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    2. There was a lot of tobacco in the prison I was in, thick juicy pork steaks, choice beef cuts, big jars of real milk, 3 bread slices...it was December 24, by February when the illegal aliens started coming back, we were back to chili beans with rubbery cheese and pink burger meats...
      We also had quarters nickels and dimes to call as often as we wanted and to gamble on the horse races, and guitars to party all the time, and cards, chess, dominoes, checkers, tvs, books,volley and basket balls...we was happy for 3 months, all the guards were our cuñaos too, I did not want to leave

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  17. Pleease stop painting our country as if it were Somalia or some crappy place like that. Mexico is NOT a bad place to live. We earn a lot of money from tourism, but with stuff like this, you make people scared of the country, and make people lose respect for us. You may not agree with what is going on, but that is why we are in a democracy, Get Involved!!!

    Mexico will be great. Greater than the United States, greater than Canada, greater than Europe. We are on our way already.

    Please paint the country in a better light always.

    Paz.

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    1. No Jonás. War and tourism are a lethal mix. Denial is a tasteless umbrella cocktail that causes fatalities. To encourage people to tour Mexico at this time is careless, mindless and irresponsible.

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    2. Sorry but there is not better light to paint it with. My tios both retired teacher's we're kidnapped until ransom was paid 5k for each. My cousin and her husband crossed to go visit family 20minutes into Mexico two trucks pull up with cuernos aimed at them .they had ther few month old baby with them they we're told to get off leave everything now if you want to live they grabbed ther baby an got out.20 minutes later gunfire so close they could here it.they we're taken to presidencia to idintfy ther truck with to dead bodies inside and my cousins truck had close to 400 bullet holes leaving truck totaled useless .fast forward a year and my uncle got deported he lost his green card due to pot charges he married in Mexico had a daughter shortly after someone entered his hom cut his hand and back part of cranium completely off he was tortured.. Why we will never know he wasn't a saint but he was just a pot head that's all he did.. Nothing heavy no killing anybody or rape charges none of that we believe he wouldn't work fie cartel so they made example out of him..sorry but Mexico is very bad place right now

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    3. I agree Mexico has everything but security

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    4. With greatest respect, you must be joking. You have 1000's of armed men (and women) with military weapons roaming around the country, killing citizens, opponents, the army and police (or conspiring with them to kill MX citizens), dynamite strapped to bodies, chainsaw beheading, machete beheading etc, dozens of students executed by order of a town's mayor (JL Abarca), one single sex slave raped 43,000 times (according to reports), even people shooting down navy helicopters with RPGs!!! That sounds very much like Somalia to me! In fact it sounds worse! The staggering extent, depth and complexity of corruption between criminals and authorities in Mexico is unlike any other country on earth and arguably more far reaching and entrenched than Somalia which simply does not have the industrialization, development or geographical location for such corruption to exist (i.e. no USA on its border to fuel demand for trillion $ drug trade). BB does not make us scared to visit MX. The facts do that. Two Australian surfers found murdered, burned to death in their van last week is a classic example. How you can say all the above is "on your way to greatness" I do not know. Sorry but it looks to me that MX has a very dangerous element to it that can't be ignored. I wish that was not the case. I feel extremely sorry for all of MX. I would love to visit MX but ... I have huge concerns about doing so.

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    5. Hypothetical questions: Would you take a vacation right now in Palestine or Lebanon, swing by Egypt's pyramids or catch the waves in Aleppo?Go camping in Darfur, trek across the Sudan or go rock climbing in Afghanistan? Of course not! Why? In a word, WAR. Mexico is at war. STAY HOME.

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    6. Wow 6:18!!!! Let the truth be told!!! Good job!!!

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  18. a little bit off subject....but there are rumors that Rogelio González Pizaña aka El Kelin/Z-2, one of the original Zetas was kidnapped and killed...along with his whole family...they say the matamoros plaza boss Odon “Gordo Cherry’s” Azua Cruces ordered the kidnapping and hit...chivas have you heard anything about that?

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  19. This is sooo sad I feel bad for the prisoners.

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  20. Miguel Arellano Félix, pastor de Alianza Ministerial Evangelista de Durango, afirma haber sido jefe del cártel de Los Arellano Félix "Soy hijo de Ramón Arellano Félix. Pertenecí10 años al cártel de los Arellano Félix. Era el piloto aviador del cártel"

    is this EL Piloto ?

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  21. I visited an American citizen friend of mine in a cereso(prison) in northern Mexico. I didn't pau to go on and see him or to take him things. The guards opened the doors at 10am and let us bring almost any type of food or beverage with very little restrictions. They would take adults man an women quick tap down search wat you're bringing in and in you went. They would let us go right inside with all the inmates id visit my friend in his cell if I chose too without paying anyone. They did offer protection to my friend which was like 30$ us dollars a month. My friend did have a cell phone inside I don't think he paid anyone to have it . he did pay to have his cell to himself like $60 us dollars a month. They have cells that u can go to to buy any drug u want other cells wer prostitutes would sell themselves to inmates and visitors. They had a small taco torta stand wer u could buy caguamas (32ounce) beers for $10 dollars each. Families wer allowed to stay with ther loved ones from 10am till 4pm and on weekends until 6pm. Inmates had to wear uniforms only to leave to recreational area otherwise family would take ther street clothes home wash them an com back the next day. I'm not sure how many visits a week wer allowed because I only went once a month for about 5years almost. My friend stole a car in USA crossed border bought 55libras (pounds) and was pulled over before crossing back to USA by a reten (checkpoint) that was setup by Mexico military. He was 19yrs old just a kid. He broke the law paid for it with 5yrs..hope this helps to understand a little of how it works inside a Mexican prison. This prison is the same one wer 20plus inmate's escaped thru a tunnel. I won't say the cartels name that did that but I'm sure you know which one I'm referring too BB.

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    1. I had a brother n law that would visit someone in prison and buy keys from him. He would also say all the things 11:06 talks about. When I was younger I always thought he was lying untill i came to see it was all true down in Mexico. - El Soldado Perdido

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    2. The Centros de Readaptacion Social "Readapt" the inmates to be smarter criminals as soon as they come into the "ce-re-so" system all over mexico...
      --On the US you have options, not many, but one of the best is you become a prison lawyer, you have 24 hours a day, or at least until lights out! To get there...
      --another one is body builder, but your dingaling disappears and you become body obsessed with your buddies there and into steroids and "male hormone enhancements" and exchange...

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  22. Thats not much different from US prisons, or any prison anywhere in the world for that matter.

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  23. Chivis, post something about the kidnapping and murder of el Kelin

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  24. EJECUTARON AL KE ATENDIA EL YONKE SHAGGY ,MENDEZ MONCADA ,

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    1. Cual "Moncada" te refieres a los de Tamaulipas o quien?

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    2. Fidel castro assaulted the moncada military base, it is a cuban national day, then fidel ran away to mexico where el negro durazo made him his jinetera and recruited him to be cuba's señor de los cielos about 20 years later...
      --that the one?

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  25. 11:06--cheers.

    Thanks for insight.

    Look foreword to more of your insight.

    Let's us all look for the - diamond in the rough solution to our neighbors predicament.

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  26. Dam those dudes don't even look Mexican. They look Central American. Most likely from Oaxaca.

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    1. In case you forgot mex is not a caucasian country fool. There are plenty of indians there fool

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  27. Actually fool, it depends on where you go like Sinaloa where the indios don't live...you sound like paisano with no real experience in Mexico.

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