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AMLO Announces Release of Prisoners to House Arrest

By KELIN DILLON During his daily press conference on the morning of Thursday, July 29, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would be releasing a significant portion of Mexico’s prisoner population out of cells and back into society based on specific guidelines. Via a presidential decree, prisoners over the age of 65 with health issues and those

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Islas Marías: From Penal Colony to Nature Reserve

By RICARDO CASTILLO     Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Monday, Feb. 18, that the group of islands off the country’s Pacific coast known as the Islas Marías, which, in the 1940s were transformed from a high-security federal penitentiary into a low-security prison for nonviolent offenders with a minimum two-year sentence, will soon become a cultural center and nature reserve

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