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Public Story
Walls of Sea
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octavio hoyos
Updated: 01/13/21
Las Islas Marías was a prison complex in Mexico that operated from 1905 to 2019. Located 112 kilometers from the Mexican coast, within the Pacific Ocean it was a feared prison until the current president of Mexico decided to close it to turn it into an ecological reserve for biodiversity research.
This essay is the work of three visits to the penitentiary island where the inmates lived in semi-freedom.