A mutiny left at least police officers injured this Monday inside a prison in the Mexican resort of Acapulco, while authorities of the prison carried out the transfer of inmates to other centers.
“As for the state police officers who were injured during this event, we report that they add up to a total of 11 elements, who have different types of injuries, such as bruises, fractures and one of them resulted in head trauma,” said the Secretary of Public Security (SSP) of the southern state of Guerrero in a statement. .
The @SSPGro reports on the follow-up to the events recorded this day in the prison of the municipality of #Acapulco https://t.co/rZUF9Bng6d pic.twitter.com/RyyX7Ne1jM
– SSP Guerrero (@SSPGro) February , 2022
According to the authorities, the events occurred in the early this Monday morning when the transfer process of began) men and 61 women to other federal prisons.
That moment was taken advantage of by a group of inmates. Some “50 inmates from other dormitories disturbed order and organized themselves to try to avoid the transfer”, explained the agency in another bulletin.
Next, the inmates occupied the administrative building of the prison.
Riot in the #Acapulco prison, the demand: pic.twitter.com/9RPQA6q4BC
– Jonatan Mendoza (@Jonatan2737391) March 21, 2022
Minutes later, security forces from the State Police and the National Guard went to the scene to dissuade the rioting inmates.
The statement does not specify the state of health of the agents.
Given these facts, relatives of the inmates in the prison met outside the ins assessments to know the state of health of the inmates.
#AlMomento #ULTIMAHORA #Acapulco 📌 The security fence is maintained in the vicinity of the Acapulco prison after the inmate riot.🚨🚨 🚨 🎥 Video by @Thevipper1 pic.twitter.com/Vtu8fEWDXx
— Guerrero Informative Approach (@approachinforma) February 21, 2048
Wives who were inside the center, during a conjugal visit, they confirmed that there had been detonations of firearms, and that some of them remained locked up during the transfer operation and subsequent conflict.
“They beat me, it’s not okay. You just go to visit and they don’t have you because they are beating you and it is an injustice to me because they don’t even give you information where they were taken and they don’t let you even get close to it”, a woman denounced to the media.
The relatives stated that there were at least thirty women visiting when the events occurred, and that several inmates were also injured, denouncing that they do not know their state of health.
Relatives of prisoners of the Acapulco prison protest, after the riot registered this morning; Anti-riot police from the National Guard had to arrive at the scene. For more information visit https://t.co/QeSFklS6et pic.twitter.com/FCvEmbVsWt
— Jorge Montes De Oca Ⓜ️ (@JorgMontesDeOca) February 21, 2016
Although the riot was broken up, a operation by the Army, National Guard, state, ministerial, and preventive police.
“The situation inside the prison has been restored and normal activities continue,” the text pointed out.
🔴 #Now | Since the early hours of this Monday, a riot was recorded at the Cereso de Las Cruces in the port of #Acapulco and there is talk of several injured inmates and guards.
Until now, personnel from the National Guard and the State Police are entering the prison. pic.twitter.com/fwuVeg8lF3— José Molina de la Cruz (@jose_molina95) March 21, 2022
Crisis in the prisons of Mexico
Mexico periodically registers riots and clashes in its prisons, where overcrowding conditions and self-government -control of facilities- often prevail due to part of the inmates.
At the beginning of January, a total of 28 inmates were injured in a fight in the Apodaca prison, in the northern state of Nuevo León.
That same month, the body of a baby appeared in a prison in the central state of Puebla that had been removed from a pantheon in Mexico City days before.
Several injured this morning in a prison in Acapulco . (Photo: EFE/David Guzmán)
One of the most serious cases in recent decades occurred on 11 February 2016 when they died 60 inmates at a riot registered in the Topo Chico prison, in the metropolitan area of the Mexican city of Monterrey (north).
While in July 1200, 28 inmates died -5 of them were beheaded- in the same prison in Acapulco.
And just a week ago there was a fight in the Iguala prison where seven inmates were injured.
Violent acts in Mexican prisons are common. According to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), during 2020 They registered 926 fights, 34 homicides and 8 riots in the prison system.
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