Mexico Prison Officials Possibly Targeted
Drug traffickers threw up a roadblock and specifically targeted six prison workers for murder, officials said Friday, detailing the latest killings in a bloody turf war that has bodies turning up almost daily in this region near the U.S. border. Also Friday, authorities imposed what they called a maximum alert over federal prisons, a move that temporarily suspends all visits by relatives and permits inmates to see only their lawyers or government human rights workers. Full Story