2024-06-16 23:34:32
Greater than 2,000 gang members who have been imprisoned in numerous prisons within the nation have been transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Middle (Cecot), the mega-prison image of the struggle in opposition to gangs in El Salvador, introduced President Nayib Bukele.
“We transferred greater than 2,000 gang members from the prisons of Izalco (west), Ciudad Barrios (east) and San Vicente (southeast), to Cecot,” the president indicated in his account on the social community X.
The Cecot, inaugurated initially of 2022, has a capability for 40,000 inmates and the Salvadoran Authorities assures that it’s the “largest in America.”
In keeping with official figures, till February of this 12 months, 12,500 gang members from the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18 have been imprisoned within the jail, detained below an distinctive regime questioned by human rights organizations for the detention of “innocents that suffer.” in jail.
The emergency regime, below which greater than 80,000 alleged gang members have been detained, was decreed by Congress on the request of Bukele in response to an escalation of violence that claimed the lives of 87 folks between March 25 and 27, 2022.
In a video that Bukele posted on the
«There they’ll pay for the crimes dedicated in opposition to our folks; reduce off from the skin, with out the potential for leaving or ordering crimes from jail,” mentioned President Bukele.
The Cecot was in-built Tecoluca, 74 km southeast of San Salvador and occupies 166 hectares, in 23 of which eight pavilions have been constructed inside a fringe with 19 surveillance towers.
Between the seven safety rings of the jail, constructed at a value not revealed by the federal government, there’s a concrete wall 11 meters excessive and a couple of.1 kilometers lengthy topped by electrified wire fences.
There are gadgets to dam communications with the skin.
The prisoners, who’re guarded by 250 law enforcement officials and 600 troopers, sleep in bunk beds fabricated from metal sheets, with out mattresses or pillows.
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