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FOXNEWScom: Behind bars: Thousands of criminals, including notorious MS-13 gang members, start filling new 'mega prison'

El Salvador has started to fill its mega-prison with a transfer of 2,000 gang members and criminals, including members of MS-13 and Barrio-18.

"Today at dawn, in a single operation, we transferred the first 2,000 gang members to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT)," El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele wrote on Twitter. "This will be their new home, where they won't be able to do any more harm to the population."

Bukele also posted a video on Twitter that showed prisoners, bound by shackles at their ankles and with hands behind their backs, running into the new facility. The prisoners wore white shorts and had shaved heads, with many men bearing gang tattoos.

The prisoners can be seen sitting tightly packed together on the floor of the facility with their hands behind their heads while they stare down at their feet.


The new 40,000-person facility opened last month after an accelerated building schedule, doubling El Salvador’s prison capacity in less than a year. The prison is one of Latin America’s largest, with 37 guard towers and eight cellblocks that will be "impossible to escape."

Bukele declared a "state of exception" in March 2022 as he empowered his government to crack down on gang members by loosening the country’s arrest laws, such as no longer requiring a warrant for an arrest and granting the government access to citizens’ communications.

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Originally posted by powermad:
Looks like they took a page from the Russians.
Walking bent over, hands behind their backs, legs chained and in skivvies.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
I was thinking that they were going to talk about the new 'facility' at the bottom of the ocean.