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Palacio de Lecumberri (historic, the 'Black Palace')
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Mexico City's notorious early-20th-century prison. Closed 1976; now the national archive.
Background
The Palacio de Lecumberri is a large building, formerly a prison, in the northeast of Mexico City, Mexico, which now houses the General National Archive (Archivo General de la Nación). Known in popular culture as The Black Palace of Lecumberri, it served as a penitentiary from 1900 to 1976. It was inaugurated by President Porfirio Díaz. The building was decommissioned as a prison in 1976 and turned over to the country's National Archive in 1980.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1900
Closed 1976
Facility profile
Operator
Federal (closed; now Archivo General de la Nación)
Population held
male
Opened
1900
Region
Ciudad de México
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
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
Held Pancho Villa, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Revueltas.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
58%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Archivo General de la Nación
- Sistema Penitenciario Federal y estatales — México (consolidated) — Órgano Administrativo Desconcentrado de Prevención y Readaptación Social + state penitentiary agencies
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.