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4 hours don’t pass
Authorities are not moving the first batch of 2,000 suspected gang members for El Salvador to a large new prison.
At the heart of the self-declared war on President Nayib Bukele’s crimes.
Tens of thousands of suspected gangsters are caught under a state of emergency because of the increase in murders and other violent crimes.
This photo is from Portal
This photo is from Portal
Di prison will eventually hold more than 40,000 pipo.
Pictures show the first large group of inmates – with tattoos and no shoes – entering the facility with chains.
This photo is from Portal
The prisoners are siddon for the ground with slide hands behind the heads as they shave close together before taking them to slide cells.
This photo is from Portal
President Bukele tweets that the transfer of the first 2,000 pipo goes “at dawn for a single operation” to the Center for Confinement of Terrorism, and I say America’s largest prison.
“This will be a new house that they will live with for decades, all mixed up, with no harm to the population.”
This photo is from Portal
This photo is from Portal
The mega-prison – for Tecoluca, 74 kilometers (46 miles) southeast of the capital San Salvador – will get eight buildings.
Each gets 32 cells of about 100 square meters (1,075 sq ft) to hold “more than 100” prisoners, di goment tok.
Di-cells only have two sinks and two toilets each.
This photo is from Portal
The mega-prison – for Tecoluca, 74 kilometers (46 miles) southeast of the capital San Salvador – will get eight buildings.
Each gets 32 cells of about 100 square meters (1,075 sq ft) to hold “more than 100” prisoners, di goment tok.
Di-cells only have two sinks and two toilets each.
This photo is from Portal
This photo is from Portal
President Bukele bin declared a “war on gangs” last March and passed contingency measures, which he renewed several times.
The emergency powers are controversial because they restrict some constitutional rights, such as B. Allowing security forces to arrest suspects without warrants.
This photo is from Portal
This photo is from Portal
More than 64,000 suspects have been arrested for fighting crime.
Authorities say criminal gangs like MS-13 and Barrio-18 reach tens of thousands and are responsible for killings, extortion and drug trafficking. The plan for the mass arrests, to make the gangs “completely disappear”, goment tok.
Human rights organizations say innocent Pipo have been arrested for their politics and some of the Pipo captured have been subjected to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment”.
But Bukele’s anti-gang push is still popular with Salvadorans.