Mexico · Jalisco · El Salto
CEFERESO No. 2 Occidente (Puente Grande)
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1993
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 21 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1993
Region
Jalisco
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
January 2001 escape of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán inside a laundry cart — prompted decade of escapes/reform debate.
Notable inmates
- Rafael Caro Quintero1952 · drug lord
Rafael "Rafa" Caro Quintero (born October 24, 1952) is a Mexican former drug lord who co-founded the now-disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel with Miguel Ãngel Félix Gallardo and other drug traffickers in the late 1970s.
- José Luis Gutiérrez Valencia1978–2017
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 5. The national average across 629 scored Mexico facilities is 8 — 3 points below national average.
Related facilities
Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
- Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 (Altiplano)Almoloya de JuárezMaximumFederal maximum-security86% occupancy
- CEFERESO No. 3 Noreste (Matamoros)MatamorosMaximumFederal maximum-security
- Centro de Reinserción Social ApodacaApodacaMixedState
- Centro Preventivo y de Reinserción Social Topo Chico (historic)MonterreyMaximumState (decommissioned)
- CRS CosamaloapanCentro de Reinserción Social
- CENTRO PENITENCIARIO SAN FRANCISCO KOBENState prison
Compared to other facilities in Mexico
628 peersHigher risk than 0% of peer facilities in Mexico.
Data completeness
50%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- OADPRS â Puente Grande
- Sistema Penitenciario Federal y estatales â México (consolidated) — Ãrgano Administrativo Desconcentrado de Prevención y Readaptación Social + state penitentiary agencies
- Wikidata (Q110162910)
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). CEFERESO No. 2 Occidente (Puente Grande). Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/cefereso-no-2-occidente-puente-grande
"CEFERESO No. 2 Occidente (Puente Grande)." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/cefereso-no-2-occidente-puente-grande.
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