NPR People: Jason Beaubien

Jason Beaubien is NPR's Mexico City Correspondent. In his current job, he covers Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America.

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Prison Break Epitomizes Mexican Drug War Woes

February 21, 2012, 12:01 AM

(Julio Cesar Aguilar / AFP/Getty Images)

Officials in Mexico are offering a reward of nearly $1 million for the capture of 30 inmates who broke out of a prison in the northern state of Nuevo Leon on Sunday. The governor says the inmates staged a riot to create a diversion for their escape. Forty-four inmates died in the violence.

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