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Riot at the Grey Bar Hotel in TJ.

Mexicali_Kid - 9-15-2008 at 09:25 AM

Rioting broke out at the La Mesa Penitentary during visiting hours on Sunday. The inmates rioted because of the alleged torture and killing of an inmate. Several inmates have died in the ensuing riots. Hostages have been taken. In the confusion, some inmates may have escaped wearing guard uniforms. There are at this time many people still inside who came to visit.

k gacho k empezamos la semana con esta noticia.

http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldetijuana/notas/n853478.htm

woody with a view - 9-15-2008 at 10:48 AM

mustard gas, anyone? rehabilitation, yeah, right! bunch of animals!

DENNIS - 9-15-2008 at 10:54 AM

Around 8-9 years ago, I got jambed-up in Rosarito for breaking a guy's window. The local police were going to send me there if I didn't sign a confession.
I signed.

lizard lips - 9-15-2008 at 10:56 AM

I have talked to people that have been there. It's like a little city where you can buy anything from drugs to sony camcorders. Prostitutes are run through that place nightly. They had at one time a area where your family could live with you in the prison, for a price. If you have money to spend you get treated like a king.

woody with a view - 9-15-2008 at 10:59 AM

live like a king! sign me up!!!! i guess you'd have to have ALOT of money to grease all of the outstreched hands if you wanted to keep any of your money, not to mention your life.....

DENNIS - 9-15-2008 at 11:03 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by lizard lips
I have talked to people that have been there. It's like a little city where you can buy anything from drugs to sony camcorders. Prostitutes are run through that place nightly. They had at one time a area where your family could live with you in the prison, for a price. If you have money to spend you get treated like a king.


I visited a couple of buddys in the Mazatlán prison in the mid-60s and that's the way it was there as well. The biggest baddest, they called him the president, had control of everything. My friends had a cell to themselves with good stereo equipment etc. because they could pay the president. he actually had a small farm with with veggies and chickens running all over the place. Nobody would bother the chickens unless they wanted to take its place in the pot.
Compared to the pictures of La Mesa, it actually seems civilized.

lizard lips - 9-15-2008 at 11:20 AM

Sorry Woody..... Live like a king, of let's say Tonga. Is that a better analogy?

woody with a view - 9-15-2008 at 11:24 AM

i was trying to be sarcastic.... but yeah, i get it! my bud did 5 years in islas marias and so i've heard it all well, most anyway!!!

Woooosh - 9-15-2008 at 12:43 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by lizard lips
I have talked to people that have been there. It's like a little city where you can buy anything from drugs to sony camcorders. Prostitutes are run through that place nightly. They had at one time a area where your family could live with you in the prison, for a price. If you have money to spend you get treated like a king.


Those days are history. No room for private suites now. You still have to buy things to make it liveable but only conjugal visits are permitted. 20-30 men in a cramped cell. I'm surprised this stuff doesn't happen daily.

..and if you have mucho money to burn- you wouldn't be in prison in Mexico in the first place for to long- no matter what you did to get there.

[Edited on 9-15-2008 by Woooosh]

CaboRon - 9-16-2008 at 10:22 AM

This has turned into a bad situation .....

Most of the prison burned down and three dead !!

Nobody deserves that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26720874

CaboRon



[Edited on 9-16-2008 by CaboRon]