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(The Wash.Post has apparently hired former G.Post Cuba freelancer Nick Miroff full-time. Congrats on this astute action. He's a story breaker. Period.)
As the Mexican army, marines and federal police battle and die to arrest narco terrorists, Mexico's prisons fail to keep the convicted felons...locked-up.
Embarrassingly, recently hundreds have escaped.
"I lock them up, and they( local officials) let them out," said President Felipe Calderon.
The Calderon government is moving to build more federal penitentiaries from the present eight facilities to as many as 20 by the end of next year.
Nationally there are 223,000 prisoners with 45,000 are federal prisoners, convicted for drug trafficking, gun violations or drug-related killings.
But today only 9,000 of the federal inmates are held in federal facilities.
