Corrections

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• Prison System
  • Under the Executive Branch
  • Security Secretariat in charge
• Jails
  • Municipal institutions
  • Used to house offenders convicted of lesser crimes or misdemeanors
• Statistics

  • Between 1995 and 2000 prison population increased 179%.

  • Ninety-five percent of prisoners in Mexico are male

  • The male to female ratio is 22:1

  • 43%, of prison population are awaiting trial

• Federal district.

  • largest federal prison in Mexico

  • four detention centers

  • sixteen smaller jails

  • one woman’s jail.

• Inhumane conditions

  • mistreatment of prisoners

  • the lack of trained guards

  • inadequate sanitary facilities

  • overcrowding

  • poor diet

• Improvements

  • Islas Tres Marias,

    • prisoners are allowed to bring their entire families to temporarily live with them. 

  • Women inmates are allowed to keep children under the age of five with them in prison. 

• Security

  • Maximum security

    • First built in 1991- Almoloya de Juarez

    • 480 solitary cells watched through a closed- circuit television systems.   

    • Major drug traffickers and escape artists were transferred . 

    • Currently there are now three maximum security centers

  • Medium Security

    • Most prisons are considered medium security

  • Minimum Security

    •  only one minimum security center.