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Mexico to close island prison off the coast of Riviera Nayarit

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he will close a famed island penal colony off the country’s Pacific coast. Lopez Obrador says the federal prison on the largest of the Islas Marias will be converted into a cultural and environmental education center. About 200 of its approximately 600 inmates will be released, with the rest relocated to other prisons. The prison founded in 1905 on Maria Madre passed through periods of infamous …

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