Conditions in Jalisco prisons have worsened in recent years, falling from 8.37 in 2010 to 6.90 in 2015, based on a scale from 0 to 10.
According to the study by the National Human Rights Commission, Jalisco has improved with regard to guaranteeing the physical safety of its prisoners, yet it has worsened with regards to prison management and governability.
Prisons have also worsened with regards to the overpopulation problem. Combined, the five state prisons evaluated are operating at more than double their capacity, with 16,528 prisoners instead of 7,411.
Seven murders and three homicides were committed in the Second Western Federal Social Rehabilitation Center, better known as the Puente Grande in 2015. In one shocking incident last year, one prisoner even murdered three outsiders — his long-term girlfriend and his two children, when they visited him in the lockup.
In the past four years, the prison has received the lowest average in Jalisco, with 7.3 on the scale. This score is as low as the Altiplano prison in Mexico State, the maximum security complex from which Joaquin “El Chapo,” Guzman escaped last July.