Behind Bars 2: The World’s Toughest Prisons - La Mesa, Mexico | Free Documentary

Behind Bars Season 2 Episode 7: La Mesa – A Mexican prison just over the US border. | Prison Documentary Behind Bars - Armavir Prison, Armenia: The inmates? Drug traffickers, rapists, cartel killers. They have tough times ahead. They hardly get to leave their cells. They sleep, eat, pee, all in a very confined space. Two square meters each – for up to eight inmates. La Mesa is ruled with an iron fist – and for good reason. Its story is infamous. Cartel bosses used to rule this place which was full of drugs, prostitution and violence. Another bleak chapter followed – times of riots and fatalities. Nowadays, La Mesa is carefully controlled. Inmates are separated and locked away.