A fire whose causes are still unknown today has caused the deaths of 14 inmates of the jail Apodaca, state prison located 30 miles from Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo León (northwestern Mexico). The fire broke out in the prison psychiatric ward and caused the detachment of the roof. Authorities said the incident began shortly before four o'clock in the morning (eleven o'clock in Spain).
At first the guards tried unsuccessfully to quell the fire themselves, but it was an hour and a half later when he could be controlled. Overcrowding the prison records, so the area where the fire occurred had been fitted out as a bedroom. The 14 inmates were killed in a pavilion that housed a total of 57 prisoners.
Except some people who had mild symptoms of smoke poisoning, no reports of prisoners and guards injured. Jorge Domene, spokesman for the Government of Nuevo León to security issues, said in a television interview that the dead were prisoners charged with crimes under federal law, which are often more serious offenses.
Authorities believe the fire was caused by an electrical fault. Prison affairs specialists say that the prisons in Mexico are on average 60% overcrowding. Elena Azaola researcher believes that the criminal of Nuevo Leon would be exceeded by 50%, while prisons in Mexico City has 40,000 inmates, 100% more capacity for which they were built.
Azaola states that "prisons have many years of neglect is not surprising that" things happen like this morning in Nuevo Leon. "What's strange is that no problems arise riots and worse," he adds. In the country there are 45,000 federal criminal prisoners, of whom 8,000-considered most dangerous, are in high security prisons, by the federal government.
"This creates constant conflict between state and federal authorities," said Azaola. "To make matters worse, the degrees of dehumanization that is living in prison, many humiliations caused by the defendants and their families, which ultimately are the ones who keep the prisoners, do that before a solution to our prisons country are the new beginning of a problem.
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At first the guards tried unsuccessfully to quell the fire themselves, but it was an hour and a half later when he could be controlled. Overcrowding the prison records, so the area where the fire occurred had been fitted out as a bedroom. The 14 inmates were killed in a pavilion that housed a total of 57 prisoners.
Except some people who had mild symptoms of smoke poisoning, no reports of prisoners and guards injured. Jorge Domene, spokesman for the Government of Nuevo León to security issues, said in a television interview that the dead were prisoners charged with crimes under federal law, which are often more serious offenses.
Authorities believe the fire was caused by an electrical fault. Prison affairs specialists say that the prisons in Mexico are on average 60% overcrowding. Elena Azaola researcher believes that the criminal of Nuevo Leon would be exceeded by 50%, while prisons in Mexico City has 40,000 inmates, 100% more capacity for which they were built.
Azaola states that "prisons have many years of neglect is not surprising that" things happen like this morning in Nuevo Leon. "What's strange is that no problems arise riots and worse," he adds. In the country there are 45,000 federal criminal prisoners, of whom 8,000-considered most dangerous, are in high security prisons, by the federal government.
"This creates constant conflict between state and federal authorities," said Azaola. "To make matters worse, the degrees of dehumanization that is living in prison, many humiliations caused by the defendants and their families, which ultimately are the ones who keep the prisoners, do that before a solution to our prisons country are the new beginning of a problem.
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