Raymondville Chronicle

Mexico’s last penal colony starts new life as nature center




ISLAS MARIAS, Mexico (AP) - It's unclear if Islas Marias ever really worked as a penal colony: The remote Mexican archipelago is battered regularly by hurricanes, and its ramshackle, often century old installations are sprinkled with the ruins of failed ``productive'' projects that once aimed to make the prison population self-sustaining. Now, with the prison just closed, the hurdles of […]

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