Reforms could lead to emptying of Jalisco’s overcrowded prisons
More than half of the inmates housed in Jalisco’s prisons system could be released if the State Congress finally approves penal reforms first proposed back in 2008.
More than half of the inmates housed in Jalisco’s prisons system could be released if the State Congress finally approves penal reforms first proposed back in 2008.
Jalisco officials are investigating the case of a seven-year-old boy who died on Saturday, March 9 following an allegedly violent bullying incident at school.
Aristoteles Sandoval made over 20 ambitious pledges and promised to focus on five key areas upon taking up office as governor of Jalisco on Friday, March 1.
A new outbreak of bird flu in the state of Guanajuato has spread to 18 farms, according to agricultural officials.
“I’m not a conservative,” Jalisco’s governor-elect told CNN Mexico days before he was due to take up office on Friday, March 1. “I’m a liberal in the sense that I think we must be inclusive and tolerant of different forms of religious expression and sexual preference.”
Responding to an anonymous tip-off, state police officers discovered two Bengal tigers at an abandoned drug lab in northern Jalisco last week.
In one of his last acts before leaving office on March 1, Jalisco Governor Emilio Gonzalez gave out financial rewards for the state police involved in fighting organized crime throughout his tenure.
With the aim of heightening security and justice in Jalisco, the nascent Aristoteles Sandoval administration is pushing ahead with plans to create a new Prosecutor General’s Office (Fiscalia General de Jalisco).
Specialist personnel from state oil monopoly Pemex put out a fire on Sunday, February 24 at an underground pipeline in eastern Jalisco where thieves had been stealing gas.