Topo Chico criminal will be closed in 2020: the government of NL

MONTERREY.- The Government of Nuevo Leon has announced the closure of Criminal Topo Chico by 2020 and the extension of properties located in the municipalities of Apodaca and Cadereyta deal with the transfer of prisoners.

This is because, according to the authority itself, the criminal is neither effective nor efficient in his goal of social reintegration of prisoners serving a prison sentence.

During the third report of the Government, the Secretary of the Government, Manuel González, made public the penitentiary project whose cost is estimated at thousand 900 million pesos, after recalling the violence recorded last year in state penitentiaries.

"A prison in service for 80 years, which has ceased to be effective and has ceased to be the place where we could get the reintegration of detainees," said the secretary.

On the other hand, he explained that the approximately 900 million pesos would be used to increase the number of dormitories in Apodaca and Cadereyta prisons, as well as to provide detainees with professional service. administration, restoration and cleaning.

The Topo Chico Prison is a state prison inaugurated in 1943. Since March 1980, the penitentiary is the scene of riots and massacres.