El Salvador's Mega-Prison Takes In Another 2000 Gang Members as Inmates

And when I say "mega-prison," I'm not exaggerating. The prison was built to house 40,000 gang-members.

Forty thousand.

How do you cram that many prisoners into one prisoner?

By stacking them up four levels high:

Many of the prisoners are being held there before any trial.

The US should condemn this practice, because, as you well know -- the United States of America never indiscriminately throws hundreds of people into prison with no trial just because the current government has declared a "war" on them.

Notorious El Salvador mega prison receives thousands more rounded-up gang members to be held WITHOUT trial - as the bare metal four-storey shelves they must sleep on in their hellish cells are revealed

* Second group of 2,000 suspected gangsters were moved today amid tight security to the new Izalco prison

* Photos revealed inmates are expected to sleep on bare four-storey sheet metal bunks without mattresses

By Natasha Anderson

A mega-prison in El Salvador brought in a second wave of suspected gang members who will now serve out their sentences in the notorious facility that has been criticised over its 'severe conditions.'

The second group of 2,000 inmates were moved today amid tight security to the new Izalco prison, the largest mega-prison in the Americas, which was built to accommodate more than 40,000 gangsters.

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The first 2,000 inmates were moved last month.

The transfer operation took place on the same day that Justice and Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro asked parliament to extend the state of emergency for another month.

The prison was built to accommodate some of the 65,000 suspected gangsters detained as part of the war on crime launched last year by President Bukele, who ordered a state of emergency a year ago, allowing arrests without warrants in the violence-plagued country.

The prison in Tecoluca, 74 kilometers (46 miles) southeast of the capital San Salvador, consists of eight buildings made of reinforced concrete.

Each one has 32 cells of about 100 square meters (1,075 square feet), designed to hold 'more than 100' inmates, according to Public Works Minister Romeo Rodriguez.

Rights groups have criticised the construction as a violation of incarceration standards.

I recommend hitting the link -- the sheer number of inmates is hard to get across, until you see pictures.

CNN calls it "shocking" to hold people in prison without a court hearing.

Wait until they find out what's going in in the DC Gulag, huh?

They have supported this practice as regards the January 6th protesters -- to the extent they've permitted mention of it on CNN at all.

Strange how CNN always thinks that noncitizens are due more rights than actual US citizens.

Media Matters likewise attacks the "right wing," because apparently we authorized and built this prison or something.

Media Matter, of course, routinely attacks "right wing" critics of the DOJ who object to putting American protesters in solitary confinement, in prison (not jail), for up to a year or more without trial, because Trump supporter, you see, deserve this.

El Salvadoran gang members -- who are in fact gang-members; they wear huge MS-13 tattoos announcing their gang membership to the world -- should all be freed, obviously.

Trump supporters should just rot in jail, forever.

The president of El Salvador -- whose approval rating is "through the roof," as that CNN report admits, after the big fall in murder rates -- responds to his international critics, "Where was your concern for El Salvador when children were being killed on the streets?"

posted by Ace at 02:00 PM

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