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. Read the full article here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/16/el-salvador-super-prison-gang-members-takes-another-2000-suspects/ #elsalvador #prison #gang Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just £1 for 3 months. Start your free trial now: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/subscribe/digitalsub/3for1/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_pvid_conversion-subscription_editorial-iniative_03-22_EGW-13_organic_youtube Get the latest headlines: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.