“Impossible to escape”: a new mega-prison for gangs was opened in El Salvador

Chilling photos show how the first hardcore thugs moved into a new mega-prison in El Salvador, from which, according to President Naiba Bukele, “it is impossible to escape.”

Images from the Anti-Terrorism Center, built by the Salvadoran authorities hell-bent on winning the war against violent street gangs, show heavily tattooed, barefoot and stripped inmates, chained and kneeling shoulder to shoulder, while heavily armed guards tower over them. according to the BBC.

Prisoners are forced to squat with their hands behind their heads while they are chained inside a huge facility that authorities say is the largest in America.

“Today at dawn, in one operation, we transferred the first 2,000 gang members to the Terrorism Detention Center,” Bukele tweeted on Friday.

Prisoners on their knees
The prison will eventually hold 40,000 prisoners.
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A prisoner on his knees
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele boasted that it was “impossible” to escape from prison.
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The prison agent guards the members of the gang.
The prison was created to fight the violent street gangs of El Salvador.
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Prisoners on their knees
Human rights activists complain about El Salvador’s tactics in fighting crime.
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“This will be their new home, where they will live for decades, mixed up, unable to harm the population anymore,” he wrote.

The prison, which is located in Tecoluca, about 46 miles from the capital of the Central American country of San Salvador, will eventually house up to 40,000 prisoners in eight buildings, each with 32 cells, each housing about 100 prisoners. reports the BBC.

Each cell has only two sinks and two toilets.

The new prison is part of Bukele’s controversial gang war launched last year.

The initiative raised concerns among human rights monitors, who complained that the campaign violated basic constitutional rights, including allowing security forces to arrest suspects without a warrant.

More than 64,000 suspected gang members have been detained to date, including those believed to be members of the notorious violent gangs MS-13 and Barrio-18.

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