8 November 2011
Last updated at 01:49 GMT
A
surprise inspection in a prison in Mexico has revealed the presence of
19 prostitutes, 100 plasma televisions, two sacks of marijuana, and 100
cockerels for cock fighting.
The discovery in the prison in Acapulco came as police prepared to transfer the inmates to a maximum security jail.
The officers also found six female inmates living in the male section of the prison and two peacocks.
Mexican jails are notorious for overcrowding, corruption and rioting.
It is not the first time luxury items like TVs and weapons have been found in a Mexican jail.
In July, prisoners in a jail in Sonora state were found to be
running a lottery to raffle off a luxury cell they'd equipped with a
fridge, DVD player and air conditioning.
An inspector from the State Commission for the Defence of
Human Rights, Hipolito Lugo Cortes, recently denounced conditions in
five prisons in Guerrero state, among them the one in Acapulco.
He said inmates were running affairs at these penitentiaries
according to their own laws and customs, with little or no control by
prison authorities.
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