No more Flat Screen TVs, Cell Phones, and Visits from Lovers in Mexico Prison
"Deprived of their flat-screen TVs, mobile phones, pizza deliveries and long visits from lovers, inmates at Mexico's top security prison complained on Monday they are being treated "like dogs"" (article here).

So prisoners in Mexico are watching flat-screen TVs, getting pizza deliveries and "long visits" from lovers...Now I've only been to Tijuana, but I'm guessing these prisoners are living better than 99% of the population in Mexico. Hell, they're living better than 80% of Americans.

"Powerful prisoners in Mexican jails have long enjoyed privileges, whereas rank and file criminals are often abused by jailers."

Privileges? These guys are living better than I am, and I'm a non-jailed citizen in the United States. I don't have a flat-screen TV. I think that "Land of Opportunity" no longer fits America, the term is better reserved for Mexico's top security prison in La Palma.

From an advertisement posted in a newspaper in Mexico City, an unnamed prisoner was quoted as saying "We only ask to be treated like the humans we are ... The fact that we have been deprived of our freedom in no way means that our most basic rights have stopped as Mexican citizens. Therefore we ask for clemency so that justice be done and our human rights respected"

See, I know that in the Constitution of the United States there are certain "unalienable rights"..."life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Now I have never read the Mexican Constitution...I don't even know if they have a constitution, but if anywhere on that document it says "We, the Citizens of Mexico, have certain unalienable rights, such as life, watching flat-screen TVs, having pizza delivered to you in jail, and long visits from lovers while in the slammer."

If that line is anywhere in an official Mexican document...I'm in. Count me in. Viva la Mexico!