At least 60 inmates at the Cameron County Rucker-Carrizales Corrections Center in Olmito were charged with fighting after an all-out melee broke out in the jail.
Details are sketchy and there have been no official statements, but relatives of some of the inmates charged say that the indiscriminate charges against their relatives being held in custody there were the result of a general uprising after gang factions confronted each other and the corrections guards were unable to stop the fighting.
"I got a phone call from my son at Carrizales and he said that the guards just came in and took everyone to get charged with assault even if they weren't involved," the mother of one of the inmates wrote El Rrun-Rrun.
Prison gang membership is a fact of life in many correctional centers, Carrizales included. When inmates are being processed, they are asked for their gang affiliation to prevent members of rival gangs to be housed together, she said.
"Te preguntan con quien corres," wrote the woman. "That way they don't put in the vallucos with members of La M or El Sindicato. If you don;t belong to a gang corres solano. There's nothing you can do."
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Sheriff Omar Lucio and his flunkys, the Reyna brothers, censor bad news from the jail and continue to bullshit the public about the problems they have controlling their "inmates". We know that failure to follow department policy led to the stabbing of a guard and the murder of a citizen during the inmate's getaway. They seem to take action to protect gangs from being together, but obviously that leaves all gang members in jeopardy. Sheriff Lucio is a dinosaur who needs to step away.
Damn low life's! They are in there for a reason. Sorry lady, cry us a river.
Y de dejan sin calcos!
We put them in jail and give them a weight room and sports equipment. Should lock them up and give them books and lessons. As it is they come out of jail meaner, more bold and stronger.
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