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Shocking Images Show El Salvador Prisoners Crammed Inside Jail During Coronavirus Lockdown

President Nayib Bukele announced a 24-hour lockdown inside prisons, meaning inmates were crammed together in one room, sitting one behind the other

Daily Mirror UK, 28 APR 2020

The Izalco prison inmates were crammed next to each other after President Nayib Bukele ordered a 24-hour lockdown of prisons containing gang members. President Bukele said their leaders would be sent into solitary confinement after a sudden spike of 22 homicides on Friday.

Inmates at an El Salvador prison were forced together in a jailhouse lockdown as authorities ignored social distancing rules on Saturday.

President Bukele wrote on Twitter: 'No contact with the outside world. Shops will remain closed and all activities are suspended until further notice. 'Gang leaders will go into solitary confinement.' Bukele said the 'maximum emergency' lockdown would be enforced while police investigated the 22 murders reported on Friday.

That number was the highest total in a single day since Bukele took office last June, a police spokesman said. Inmates at an El Salvador prison were forced together in a jailhouse lockdown as authorities ignored social distancing rules on Saturday.

Only a few years ago, El Salvador, which has long been plagued by powerful street gangs known as maras, had the highest homicide rate in the Americas. In recent years, more than 100,000 Salvadorans have been displaced from their homes and forced to flee the Central American nation due to the constant menace they have faced from street gangs.

Earlier this month, the country's gangs took to enforcing Bukele's state of emergency, using threats and baseball bats to keep people indoors.

'We don't want to see anyone in the street,' a recent recording said. 'If you go out, it better be only to the store, and you better be wearing a mask.'

The gang members are mostly members of the Barrio 18 and MS-13 criminal organizations which are made up deportees from the United States.

Mara Salvatrucha, popularly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1970s and 1980s.

The gang later spread to many parts of the continental United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America, and is active in urban, suburban, and rural areas.