El Salvador: 2,000 more to prison, vows will 'never return'

Another 2,000 people accused of being part of criminal gangs have been transferred to the new and enormous prison in El Salvador

Wednesday in El Salvador, a small Central American state and one of the most violent in the world, more than 2,000 detainees accused of being part of gangs

Another 2,000 suspected gang members land in El Salvador’s mega-prison

President Nayib Bukele bragged there were now 4,000 gangsters in the prison that has a capacity to fit 40,000 inmates.

El Salvador: 2,000 More to Prison, Vows will ‘Never Return’

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s government sent 2,000 more suspects to a huge new prison built especially for gang members Wednesday, and the the justice minister vowed that “they will never return” to the streets.

2,000 more suspected gang members transferred to new mega-prison in El Salvador

First 2,000 suspects were transferred to largest prison in the Americas in February - Anadolu Agency

El Salvador: 2,000 more suspected gang members sent to prison, minister vows they will 'never return'

Over the last 354 days, about 65,000 people have been arrested in the anti-gang campaign

Second group of prisoners transferred to El Salvador new mega-jail

The prison was built to accommodate some of the 65,000 suspected gangsters detained as part of the war on crime launched last year by Bukele, who ordered a state of emergency a year ago, allowing arrests without warrants in the violence-plagued country