Mexico to close infamous island penal colony, region's last

[TomSea]

Mexico to close infamous island penal colony, region's last
[Associated Press]
MARK STEVENSON
,Associated Press•February 18, 2019

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico will close its infamous Isla Marias prison, the last island penal colony in a hemisphere once dotted with remote island jails like the one depicted in the movie "Papillon."

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that Mexico will relocate about two-thirds of the 659 remaining inmates and free about 200 others from the islands, 70 miles (110 kilometers) off the Pacific coast of Nayarit. The four islands — only one of which is inhabited — will be turned into a cultural and environmental education center.

The prison founded in 1905 on Maria Madre passed through periods of infamous brutality. When Panama closed its Isla Coiba penal colony in 2004, Isla Marias became the last one remaining in the Americas.

Read more at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexico-close-infamous-island-penal-colony-160631237.html

Wikipedia article:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islas_Mar%C3%ADas_Federal_Prison

The article goes on to state, it spends $150 a day on each prison and the prisons are not full.

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I had to look twice at the pic above, because it looked... "familiar"...  ;)