1990 Strangeways Prison riot administrative offices on the lower floor and the chapel on the upper floor. Remand prisoners were held in wings G, H, I and K of a separate prison, linked to the main prison through workshops and a kitchen. The Certified Normal Accommodation Figure for Strangeways, the number of prisoners the prison was designed to hold, was 970. The population of the prison had increased in the months before the riot, from 1,417 in January 1990 to a peak of 1,658 on 27 March. On 1 April, the prison contained 1,647 prisoners – about 925 convicted adult prisoners, 500 remand prisoners
Apodaca prison riot March 2011, 3 high-profile inmates escaped from a prison. On 2 January 2012, the same prison experienced the jailbreak of 4 inmates. In Veracruz, a total of 32 inmates escaped from three prisons on 19 September 2011. On 27 November 2011, in San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, 11 inmates escaped from a federal prison. On 9 December 2006 in the resort city of Cancún, 80 inmates escaped from a prison after a prison riot; 63 of them were captured. On 28 April 2012 in Calera, Zacatecas, 10 inmates escaped from a prison. According to "CNN", more than 400 prison inmates escaped