The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Overpopulation at Jalisco’s prisons has decreased this year, mainly thanks to large numbers of federal inmates being transferred to penitentiaries in other states.
Six private hospitals in Jalisco have been slapped with a fine of more than 14 million pesos for price fixing, according to information released by the Federal Competition Commission (CFC).
Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has instructed his secretary general to send a package of penal reforms to the State Congress that would see terms of life imprisonment imposed for certain crimes, including murder with aggravating circumstances, murder of a police officer, feminicide (the killing of females by males because they are female) and parricide (killing one’s father, mother or other close relatives).
Four men aged between 18 and 24 have been charged in connection with the murder of six young men and a 38-year-old waiter in Lagos de Moreno in July.
A local indigenous leader claims he was tortured by state police and told to falsely implicate a number of officials after being arrested last week.
Legislator Hector Pizano Ramos has submitted a proposal to the Jalisco Congress that would increase the terms of mayors in the state from three to four years.
August 28 marked the “Dia del Abuelo” in Mexico, leading politicians across the country to speak, purportedly in earnest, of the importance of caring for the elderly.
Federal police arrested a man driving a truck laden with over a ton of marijuana in northern Jalisco this week.
The Jalisco Prosecutor General’s Office (FGE) has been undermined by a “web of corruption,” the state government admitted this week that.
