Friday 30 August 2013

Inside El Salvador's secretive prison pits where notorious gangs are crammed together like livestock in shed-sized cells

Huddled together like cattle in a cage, some of the men of El Salvador's prison pits have languished in these rancid holding cells for more than a year.
Huddled together like cattle in a cage, some of the men of El Salvador's prison pits have languished in their rancid holding cells for more than a year. Designed only for temporary 72-hour stays, the sweltering cells, each 12 feet wide and 15 feet tall are crammed with more than 30 people - all veterans of the country's vicious war between the MS-13 and M18
gangs.
Murder Rates: A U.N. report said El Salvador and neighboring Honduras have the highest homicide rates in the world with 66 and 82.1 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively, in 2010
An estimated 50,000 Salvadorans belong to the street gangs that have terrified citizens and left this small Central American nation of 6 million with one of the world's highest murder rates
In El Salvador, police say, about 10,000 members of Barrio 18 and MS-13 are in jail's like these
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