Mexican police shut bar serving prison inmates | Irish Sun

Mexican police shut bar serving prison inmates

The Guardian Wednesday 25th May, 2011

Mexico that served beer, tequila and vodka to inmates. Jorge Chaires, a spokesman for Chihuahua state's prosecutor for prisons, said the deputy director had been fired and guards at the low-security prison were under investigation. The bar was found at a jail in Chihuahua city, the state capital. Authorities confiscated 200 beer cans, 12 bottles of tequila and 20 bottles of vodka. The bar also had a billiard table. Meanwhile, 17 inmates escaped from another northern prison, apparently using a tunnel they had dug from the laundry room.

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