In Mexico, people can regularly go to jail for years before even facing trial.
It is called mandatory pre-trial detention and accounts for almost 100,000 of those in the country’s prisons.
And efforts to change the system — which affects mostly younger impoverished Mexicans — are not going well.

Al Jazeera's @John Holman reports from Mexico City.

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