Whack-a-mole: Mexican prisons failing to keep drug traffickers on the inside

Mexican prisons failing to keep drug traffickers on the inside: "NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO - Just as Mexican authorities are struggling to put drug traffickers in prison, Mexican prisons are struggling to keep them there. ...

The rash of escapes comes as the Mexican government and its American advisers are engaged in a vast overhaul of the country's federal penal system. But those reforms have done little to improve security inMexico's much larger state-level prison system.

In all, about 350 inmates escaped from prisons there in 2010, according to Mexican media tallies, and only one has been recaptured. ...  

Prison experts say a big reason for the security breakdown is that the federal government launched its offensive against the drug mafias before it developed a penal system capable of incarcerating their members." Washington Post