Mexican soldiers take part in a search for mass graves inside the ex-prison of Topo Chico in Monterrey, Mexico October 8, 2019. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - In the courtyard of a jail that was shuttered last week, a man wearing a surgical mask and gloves used an underground scanner to search the earth for hidden graves in what was for decades one of Mexico's most violent prisons.
The Topo Chico prison closed last week after a 76-year history that saw riots, fires and bloody internal quarrels. A doctor who was in custody decades ago inspired one of the lead characters in the 1991 movie "The Silence of the Lambs."
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