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First Posted: May 11, 2021 12:25 AM EDT
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Mexican officials recently discovered a 650-foot tunnel built by Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman across the street from a National Guard base in Tijuana, Mexico.
The narco tunnel includes ventilation, lighting, carts, and rails. It was found after a package of marijuana was left outside a house where the narco tunnel was hidden, New York Post reported.
Law enforcement officials believed that the narco tunnel was planned to connect Tijuana to the San Diego underpass, which was found in 2019, as part of a network built by the now-jailed El Chapo.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo walks past cells in Clinton Correctional Facility in 2014.
Lots of furniture at City University of New York institutions is made by inmates in prison. That’s not a secret. It’s actually a legal requirement.
Like several other states, New York requires that government agencies use Corcraft, the brand name for its state prison industry, as a “preferred source” for products. If an agency needs a new office chair and Corcraft has a product that fits the bill, officials are required to purchase it.
The link between public institutions and prison labor has been well documented, but as policing and prisons have continued to grab hold of the national conversation, some students have been pushing back, demanding their universities cut ties with what they call “prison slavery.”
The watchdog group claims the Los Angeles County law enforcement agencies are blocking access to at least 1,000 records of claims and lawsuits filed by people alleging misconduct by police officers.
In this Sept. 17, 2020 file photo, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva comments on the investigation of the shooting of two deputies during a news conference at the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
LOS ANGELES (CN) A law enforcement and prison watchdog group sued the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office and the Sheriff’s Department on Thursday alleging a pattern of unlawful restricting of public access to misconduct claims and lawsuits against the agencies.