Chapo's motorcycle freedom ride spurs doubts about kingpin jail - Monitor
While about three dozen prison executives and officers have been dismissed or questioned and seven arrested, top government officials insist that the prison meets international security standards. The attorney general's office declined to say whether the highest-profile prisoners would be transferred or considered for extradition. government had sought Guzman's extradition, after some members of Congress said a Mexican facility was unlikely to keep him from breaking free. Guzman escaped from another Mexican prison in 2001. Among the kingpins still held at Altiplano, according to the government, are Servando "La Tuta" Gomez Martinez, leader of the Knights Templar gang. Local media have reported that Omar Trevino, a leader of the Zetas Cartel, is also an inmate there, and that his brother Miguel, the top chief of the most brutal drug gang, was scheduled to be transferred to the prison. "The Mexican government will have to take a good look at securing the prison or building a new one," since other Mexican jails are no more secure. Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong has said Mexico's prison system needs an overhaul and that he would send proposals to Congress to do so. At. Source: www.themonitor.com
