85 prisoners break-out from Mexican jail near US border

The prisoners, mainly cartel members, climbed over a prison fence in the border city of Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texans in the early hours of Friday morning local time.

News agency El Norte reports that the police have arrested more than 40 prison guards and staff who were on duty when the men escaped. Two prison guards are missing.

This is not the first case where prison guards are thought to be mixed with these clans. In July, authorities discovered that prison officials had allowed convicts out of a prison in northwestern Durangostate to carry out revenge attacks before returning to their cells for the night.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who sent thousands of troops across the country to fight drug gangs, has vowed to clean up prisons that in the past have allowed jailed drug lords to live in luxury or escape when they please.