La Mesa Penitentiary, Tijuana, Mexico - Richard Lange's Angel Baby (sitios de interés)

This is the notorious prison where the character of Jerónimo is locked up before being released to track down Luz. It’s located smack dab in the middle of the city and surrounded by houses, restaurants and shops. At night, when things quiet down inside the prison, I imagine the sounds of normal life drifting over the walls to torment the inmates lying awake in their airless cells and cramped dormitories. “The central corridor of A Block is called Revolución, after Tijuana’s main drag. The inmates congregate there, playing cards on the picnic tables and sitting stoned against the concrete walls, seeing nothing and everything. Music blares out of a hundred radios, and cons stand in the middle of the corridor and carry on shouted conversations with other prisoners in the three tiers of cells towering above them. Jerónimo nods to a couple of acquaintances as he moves through the chaos. He keeps his circle small. The fewer motherfuckers who know your business, the better, especially if you’re trying to avoid trouble.”