Federal Police Raid State Prison
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More than 900 federal police staged a surprise raid on a state prison in northern Mexico, detaining all of its guards and transferring at least 125 inmates to other institutions. The Federal Preventive Police said it was the fifth in a series of raids meant to clean up some of the country’s troubled prisons. The 960 federal police, accompanied by 42 drug-sniffing dogs, struck during the change of guards at the Coahuila state prison in Torreon, about 500 miles northwest of Mexico City.
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