El salvador jailed more than 66,000 people in a crackdown on gangs last year, giving it the world’s highest incarceration rate. the country’s president, nay. July 10, 2023 9:17 am et. text. el salvador, long whipsawed by gang violence that made it one of the world’s most dangerous countries, turned things around by jailing huge swaths of its.
El salvador jailed more than 66,000 people in a crackdown on gangs last year, giving it the world’s highest incarceration rate. wsj traveled to san salvador to explore how the push is affecting. Following a weekend of extreme gang violence in march last year, el salvador's young and media savvy president, nayib bukele, imposed a state of exception an emergency measure under which. Imprisoned gang members are in survival mode. reports from inside el salvador’s prisons suggest government forces exercise near total control behind bars. prison officials have reportedly subjected detainees to physical and psychological abuse. gangs have almost no contact with the outside world and struggle to communicate between cells. April 9, 2023. leer en español. when the ms 13 gang ran the neighborhood of las margaritas, one of its strongholds in el salvador, there were rules you had to follow to stay alive. you couldn’t.
Imprisoned gang members are in survival mode. reports from inside el salvador’s prisons suggest government forces exercise near total control behind bars. prison officials have reportedly subjected detainees to physical and psychological abuse. gangs have almost no contact with the outside world and struggle to communicate between cells. April 9, 2023. leer en español. when the ms 13 gang ran the neighborhood of las margaritas, one of its strongholds in el salvador, there were rules you had to follow to stay alive. you couldn’t. El salvador’s congress approved emergency powers that suspend constitutional guarantees and loosen arrest rules for 30 days to combat a record wave of gang related killings that forced the. In el salvador, thousands of people have been imprisoned over the past 15 months as the government tries to stop gang violence through a law known as the “state of exception.” the law expands the police’s powers to detain suspects, and enables judges to keep them in prison for an unlimited amount of time while their cases are investigated.
El salvador’s congress approved emergency powers that suspend constitutional guarantees and loosen arrest rules for 30 days to combat a record wave of gang related killings that forced the. In el salvador, thousands of people have been imprisoned over the past 15 months as the government tries to stop gang violence through a law known as the “state of exception.” the law expands the police’s powers to detain suspects, and enables judges to keep them in prison for an unlimited amount of time while their cases are investigated.
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