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Two prison riots at the Achilles Serdan Centro de Readaptacion Sosial (CERESO) have claimed the life of one inmate and ten others wounded including six prison staff, Mexican news sources say.
On Saturday prisoners temporarily took hostages following a fight in the prison commissary. Three guards were hurt in the fight. The fight began when an inmate was accused to throwing a dead animal into the food.
| Ick. Not kosher either, but that probably wasn't a concern for most of the inmates. |
Security troops including a detachment of the Mexican Army stormed the prison attempting to regain control and were countered with beatings by inmates.
Two Mexican Federal agents were reported shot and wounded and reports said dozens of prisoners were hurt. The fear in the Sunday riots was that inmates were planning a mass escape, so in addition to the internal fighting, Mexican security forces had cordoned off the prison to prevent any escapes.
Rubén Muñoz Flores, 26, serving time in prison for drugs was shot to death Sunday in the second much faster attempt to regain control of the prison after prisoners in Modules One and Seven attempted to take control.
Four inmates were wounded in police action Sunday, one with a gunshot wound to the chest.
A subsequent search on the prison by Mexican Federal agents turned up several weapons including two AK-47 assault rifles, three 9mm pistols, a .357 caliber revolver, about 100 rounds of ammunition including shells for a 12 gauge shotgun.
Authorities refused to say how the inmate acquired the weapons.
The CERESO at Achilles Serdan is about five kilometers due east of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, and houses mainly Mexican Federal prisonser.
Forty guards at the facility resigned en masse only a few days before the riots protesting poor security for prison staff, following a massacre of six prison guards in Chihuahua last week.