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MEXICO CITY — More than 140 inmates escaped Friday from a state prison in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo, and authorities said the breakout was probably helped by prison employees.
The public safety department of Tamaulipas state, where the prison is located near the border with Laredo, Texas, said 141 inmates got out through a service entrance used by vehicles, “presumably with the assistance of the prison staff.”
Eighty-three of the prisoners were being held for trial or had been convicted of crimes such as theft, assault and other state offenses, while 58 were held on federal charges, including weapons possession and drug trafficking.
