Women prisoners attending an online course on writing at the Santiaguito prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. — AP
ALMOLOYA DE JUAREZ, Mexico: Prison inmates in Mexico have suffered from coronavirus infections at a higher rate than the country as a whole, and pandemic lockdowns have reduced their already limited contact with the outside world.
But one group of women inmates at a prison west of Mexico City have managed to benefit, as the lockdown spurred a wave of professionals with time on their hands to donate online classes.
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Women prisoners attending an online course on writing at the Santiaguito prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. — AP
A guard patrols on a watch tower at the Santiaguito women’s prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. The prison is located near a separate maximum-security men’s facility where drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman escaped through a tunnel in 2015. — AP
A female inmate braids the hair of a fellow prisoner while attending an online course on writing at the Santiaguito prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. — AP
Women prisoners attending an online course on writing at the Santiaguito prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. — AP
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