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Mexico Accuses Prison Officials of Homicide after Brutal Riot

The director of a prison in northeast Mexico where 49 people died in a riot this week was accused of murder and detained, along with two others, a state prosecutor said Saturday. The riot, likely the deadliest in Mexico's history, happened in the old and crowded Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, in the state of Nuevo Leon, just days ahead of a planned visit by Pope Francis to another jail in Mexico's far north. The prison warden, Gregoria Salazar, and the deputy superintendent,...


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