MEXICO CITY, Jan. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Mexico has restored security in a prison housing the nation's most notorious drug lords and kidnappers, security officials said Friday.

    With the aid of 750 soldiers and police, prison guards have brought the prison in La Palma outside Mexico city under control, the officials said.

    The prison had seen a series of murders recently and prison authorities declared a state of alert in view of the high risk of violence within the walls and a prison break.

    Deputy Security Minister Miguel Angel Yunez has told reporters that federal agents found weapons, drugs, cell phones inside the prison cells.

    Among the inmates are Benjamin Arellano Felix, the supposed head of a powerful family cartel in the border town of Tijuana, and Osiel Cardenas, leader of the Gulf cartel on the border acrossfrom Texas.

    The two men will be extradited to the United States, and Cardenas was recently rumored to be planning an escape. Enditem