‘Impossible to flee’: El Salvador unveils new mega-prison for gangs

Chilling pictures present the primary hardcore gangbangers moved into a brand new mega-prison in El Salvador that President Nayib Bukele has boasted is “unattainable to flee.”

Snaps from contained in the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism — constructed by El Salvadoran officers hellbent on successful their battle towards violent avenue gangs — present closely tattooed, barefoot and stripped-down inmates chained and kneeling shoulder to shoulder as closely armed guards tower over them, according to the BBC.

The prisoners are pressured to crouch down with their palms behind their heads whereas chained inside the huge facility, which authorities declare is the most important within the Americas.

“Today at daybreak, in a single operation, we transferred the primary 2,000 gang members to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism,” Bukele posted on Twitter on Friday.

“This can be their new home, the place they are going to dwell for many years, combined up, unable to do any extra hurt to the inhabitants,” he wrote.

The jail, which is in Tecoluca, about 46 miles from the Central American nation’s capital of San Salvador, will finally home as many as 40,000 inmates in eight buildings, every with 32 cells that can maintain about 100 prisoners every, the BBC reported.

Each cell has solely two sinks and two bathrooms.

The new jail is a part of Bukele’s controversial battle on gangs, launched final 12 months.

The initiative has raised considerations amongst human-rights observers who’ve complained that the marketing campaign violates fundamental constitutional rights, together with by permitting safety forces to arrest suspects with out a warrant.

To date, greater than 64,000 suspected gang members have been rounded up, together with these allegedly belonging to the notoriously violent MS-13 and Barrio-18 gangs.