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Weekly Report - 12 October 2017 (WR-17-40)

MEXICO: New fatal prison riot raises old questions

At least 17 inmates were killed and 31 people (including prison guards and police officers) were injured during a riot on 10 October at the prison located in the municipality of Cadereyta, in Mexico’s north-eastern state of Nuevo León. Given that this is the third riot registered in the Cadereyta prison this year, and the fourth deadly riot in a Nuevo León prison in the last two years, the incident has raised familiar questions about the situation in the state’s prisons. Both the state and federal governments are under pressure to answer these questions not least because after 49 inmates were killed during a riot at Nuevo León’s Topo Chico prison last year – the deadliest prison riot in Mexico’s history - they had vowed to address the deficiencies in the penitentiary system to ensure that there would be no repeat of such episodes.

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