President Nayib Bukele bragged there were now 4,000 gangsters in the prison that has a capacity to fit 40,000 inmates.
The prison has a capacity for 40,000 people.
It was previously reported that the prison, located 46 miles from the Central American country’s capital, would hold inmates in eight buildings that each have 32 cells that will hold 100 prisoners each.Gang members wait to be taken to their cell after 2000 gang members were transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center on March 15, 2023.
Over the last year more than 60,000 accused gang members have been captured by the country’s army or police. Members from the MS-13 and 18 street gangs are shown in the new prison “Terrorist Confinement Centre” in Tecoluca on March 15, 2023.Inmates are seated on the prison floor of the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador on March 15, 2023.The government’s minister for justice and peace, Gustavo Villatoro, declared the alleged gang members would never be back on the streets even though about 57,000 of those detained are still waiting for formal charges or a trial.
“They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,” Villatoro said.
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