{"id":24824,"date":"2023-02-25T14:34:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=24824"},"modified":"2023-02-25T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:34:18","slug":"thousands-of-tattooed-suspected-gang-member-inmates-moved-to-el-salvador-mega-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/02\/25\/thousands-of-tattooed-suspected-gang-member-inmates-moved-to-el-salvador-mega-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of tattooed suspected gang member inmates moved to El Salvador mega-prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a huge new prison, the centrepiece of President Nayib Bukele’s self-declared war on crime.<\/b><\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of suspected gangsters have been rounded up in the country under a state of emergency following a spike in murders and other violent crime.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Gang(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n

 <\/p>\n

The jail will eventually hold more than 40,000 people.<\/p>\n

Pictures show the first massive group of inmates – tattooed and barefoot – being led to the facility in shackles.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Prison<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Prison<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

The prisoners are left sitting on the floor with their hands behind their shaven heads, stacked closely together, before being taken to their cells.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Gang<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

President Bukele tweeted that the first 2,000 people were transferred “at dawn, in a single operation” to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, which he says is the largest jail in the Americas.<\/p>\n

“This will be their new house, where they will live for decades, all mixed, unable to do any further harm to the population.”<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Prison<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"A<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"A<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

The mega-prison – in Tecoluca, 74 kilometers (46 miles) southeast of the capital San Salvador – comprises eight buildings. Each has 32 cells of about 100 square meters (1,075 square feet) to hold “more than 100” prisoners, the government says.<\/p>\n

The cells only have two sinks and two toilets each.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Gang<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Prison<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Gang<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

President Bukele declared a “war on gangs” last March, passing emergency measures which have been extended several times.<\/p>\n

The emergency powers have been controversial as they limit some constitutional rights, such as allowing the security forces to arrest suspects without a warrant.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Gang<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Gang<\/picture>(Image: Reuters)<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

More than 64,000 suspects have been arrested in the anti-crime drive.<\/p>\n

Authorities have said criminal gangs such as MS-13 and Barrio-18 number tens of thousands and are responsible for homicides, extortion and drug-trafficking. The aim of the mass arrests is to make the gangs “disappear altogether”, the government says.<\/p>\n

Human rights organisations have argued that innocent people have been caught up in the policy, and some of those held have reported being subjected to “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment”.<\/p>\n

But Bukele’s anti-gang push remains popular with Salvadorans.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a huge new prison, the centrepiece of President Nayib Bukele’s self-declared war on crime. Tens of thousands of suspected gangsters […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,6],"tags":[9255,4993,9159,5071,9158,23,2723],"class_list":{"0":"post-24824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-world","10":"tag-confinement-centre","11":"tag-el-salvador","12":"tag-gang-violence","13":"tag-prisons","14":"tag-tecoluca","15":"tag-terrorism","16":"tag-violent-crime","17":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24827,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824\/revisions\/24827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}