Prison Break In Mexico

Ten inmates escaped late Tuesday from a prison in Mexico's Caribbean beach resort of Cancun, the latest jailbreak to hit the country's scandal-plagued penitentiary system.

For a few frantic hours after a bloody shootout in northwest Mexico on Friday, Mexican security forces lost track of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as they chased him through a sewer. He had slipped the net yet again.

He's like a character on a television show, except that he's alive, he's real, say escaped Mexican drug lord's admirers.

Seventeen steel doors that only open electronically separate the outside world from prison cell number 20, where Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman lived for 17 months.

At least 132 convicts escaped from a Mexican prison near the US border on Monday, fleeing through a tunnel they dug in the old carpentry workshop, the state prosecutor's office said.

More than 40 prison guards have been charged with helping 153 inmates escape from a prison in a northern Mexican border city.The federal Attorney General's office says in a statement that 41 guards have been accused of opening the gates of the prison in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas. If convicted, the guards face up to 20 years...

Ten inmates escaped late Tuesday from a prison in Mexico's Caribbean beach resort of Cancun, the latest jailbreak to hit the country's scandal-plagued penitentiary system.

For a few frantic hours after a bloody shootout in northwest Mexico on Friday, Mexican security forces lost track of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as they chased him through a sewer. He had slipped the net yet again.

He's like a character on a television show, except that he's alive, he's real, say escaped Mexican drug lord's admirers.

Seventeen steel doors that only open electronically separate the outside world from prison cell number 20, where Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman lived for 17 months.

At least 132 convicts escaped from a Mexican prison near the US border on Monday, fleeing through a tunnel they dug in the old carpentry workshop, the state prosecutor's office said.

More than 40 prison guards have been charged with helping 153 inmates escape from a prison in a northern Mexican border city.The federal Attorney General's office says in a statement that 41 guards have been accused of opening the gates of the prison in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas. If convicted, the guards face up to 20 years...