El Salvador super prison takes 2,000 more suspects in gang crackdown

El Salvador’s government sent 2,000 more suspects to a huge new prison built especially for gang members on Wednesday, and the the justice minister vowed that “they will never return” to the streets.

The tough statement came as the administration of President Nayib Bukele asked for yet another extension of anti-gang emergency measures that would take the crackdown into its 13th month.

During the past 354 days, about 65,000 people have been arrested in the anti-gang campaign. Human rights groups say that there have been many instances of prisoner abuses and that innocent people have been swept up in police raids.

The government announced the mass inmate transfer with a slickly produced video posted on social media. It showed prisoners forced to run barefoot and handcuffed down stairways and over bare ground, clad only in regulation white shorts. They were then forced to sit with their legs locked in closely clumped groups in cells.

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[chesster]

these "human rights" are so pro criminal

[Sergio-txvq]

The USA needs to take notes on how to deal and incarcerate criminals.

[meejinhuang]

They need this in Mexico before it's too late.

[arnaldomontes]

Those thugs lost their rights when they started murdering, raping and extorting from the innocent people of El Salvador. I don't hear anyone there complaining and in fact President Bukele is considered a hero there. Jobs are on the rise, as is tourism and many many retail stores from Nike to Northface to Louis Vuitton have opened stores there in immaculate shopping malls. I've was there last December and it was wonderful to see the progress the country has made is only a few years.

[LarryMauritania]

Good to see . Thugs learning the hard way 👏🏻👏🏻

[ernie]

Prisoner abuse sounds like an oxymoron 😂

[daniswara]

Human right groups never got abused by gangs, their family never killed by them. Salvadorian really love this move made by their president

[petra]

So sick of hearing how the human rights of those thugs are being violated! What about the rights of all their victims???!!!

[Hyghly_defyned_]

Yaasss!! They should do that in NYC instead of letting these criminals, within hours of getting arrested, out

[rockroll]

They need to Model this around the Globe to clean up society.

[ramonapool]

The west could learn from these folks how to deal with criminals.

[rcrobertson]

El Salvador might possibly be the safest place to be in North or South America...It appears as though there are politicians that take care of their constituents.

[DM-zvqt]

GOOD JOB PRESIDENTE BUKELE #BUKELE2024

[AlmightyAjax]

Very good! I have so much respect for the president of El Salvador!!

[intheplums]

Wow this is great, we really need this in England... shame it's not a true democracy otherwise we would.

[intrestedparties]

If they don't plan on returning them. I guess they're going to fire up the showers.

[B-Man-]

Nayib Bukele is perhaps the only dictator that I ever respected.
I hope those 'rights' movements activists understand that no mass crackdown is perfect and there are always innocents who were caught up in the arrest. But for the millions of lives in El Salvador, this arrest is truly needed.

[Teabone]

Amazing! All countries should take note and do the same.

[saltydog]

Yet we let these same gang members walk right across our border and let em roam.

[shanehalpin]

This is class .I would go to el Salvador on holiday now