1990 Strangeways Prison riot courts, hangings, castrations and that between eleven and twenty prisoners had been killed. On 3 April the front page of the "Daily Mirror" read "Prison Mob 'Hang Cop' ", and claimed a former policeman imprisoned at Strangeways for rape had been killed by prisoners. The newspaper was forced to publish a retraction admitting that "reliable police sources" had been mistaken, when it transpired that the man was actually alive and imprisoned in HM Prison Leeds. Following the end of the rooftop protest the newspapers condemned the prisoners, with "The Daily Telegraph" describing the riot as "a degrading public spectacle", and
Apodaca prison riot the scene. The families then demanded the authorities to hand in the bodies of their loved ones. Other family members, nonetheless, confronted the police forces after failing to obtain information of what had occurred. The National Human Rights Commission reported that 25 minors were in the prison during the deadly riot. The mayor of García, Nuevo León, Jaime Rodríguez, worries that the escape of Oscar Manuel Bernal Soriano alias "La Araña" (The Spider), a high-ranking Los Zetas leader, might bring reprisals from him and the cartel. On 21 February 2012 the United Nations asked for the Mexican authorities to work