墨西哥城——州当局称，周四在墨西哥西北部锡那罗亚州的监狱发生致命暴动，正值家属探视时间。暴力事件发生在马萨特兰港口城市的埃尔卡斯蒂略监狱。
MEXICO CITY — A deadly riot broke out during family visiting hours Thursday at a prison in the violence-plagued state of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico, state authorities said. The violence occurred Thursday morning at the El Castillo Penitentiary in the port city of Mazatlan.
锡那罗亚公共安全秘书处在X上表示，事件导致九名囚犯和一名家属死亡，另有16名囚犯受伤后被送医。当地媒体报道，囚犯在冲突中使用了火器。官方尚未说明死亡原因。
Sinaloa’s Public Security Secretariat said on X that nine inmates and one family member were killed in the incident, while 16 prisoners were taken for medical treatment after being injured. Local media reported that inmates used firearms during the fight. Authorities have not yet said how the deaths occurred.
冲突后，军队、国家警卫队、海军和州安全部队进入监狱恢复秩序。
Following the clash, members of the army, National Guard, navy and state security forces entered the prison to restore order.
墨西哥联邦安全内阁称，这座关押1800名囚犯的监狱现已“受到控制”。
Mexico’s federal security cabinet said the prison, which houses 1,800 inmates, is now “under control.”
分析人士指出，过度拥挤——部分由于使用审前羁押，使数千名囚犯在未判刑前被关押——以及监狱人员不足，导致监狱内部腐败和暴力。
Overcrowding, driven in part by the use of pretrial detention — which keeps thousands of prisoners behind bars without a sentence — combined with insufficient prison staff, has fueled corruption and violence inside prisons, according to analysts.
去年五月，锡那罗亚首府库利亚坎的一所监狱爆发暴动，致七名囚犯死亡，另一人受伤。
Last May, a riot broke out at a prison in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, leaving seven inmates dead and another injured.
墨西哥共有276所监狱，包括14所联邦监狱和249所州监狱。官方数据显示，至二月监狱人口已达261,388人。
Mexico has 276 prisons, including 14 federal penitentiaries and 249 state prisons. The prison population reached 261,388 people as of February, according to official figures.
2024年9月，锡那罗亚因锡那罗亚卡特尔内部权力斗争爆发暴力，卡特尔创始人华金“埃尔查波”古兹曼的儿子们组成的“洛斯查皮托斯”与另一被拘留的前卡特尔领袖伊斯梅尔“埃尔马约”赞巴达的追随者之间的冲突。
Violence erupted in Sinaloa in September 2024 amid an internal power struggle between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, pitting the sons of convicted former drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, known as “Los Chapitos,” against followers of another detained former cartel leader, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
此次周四的暴动正值墨西哥政府面临特朗普政府施压，要求严厉打击卡特尔。
The Thursday riot comes as Mexico’s government faces pressure from the Trump administration to crack down on cartels.