Costa Rica’s top law enforcement official toured El Salvador’s notorious “mega prison” in a desperate search for answers to the bloody migrant gang war that has seen murder rates spike in his country. The prison, which is in Tecoluca, about 46 miles from the Central American country’s capital of San Salvador, can hold up to 40,000 hard-core gangbangers in eight heavily guarded buildings, each with 32 cells that will hold about 100 prisoners each. Last week, Homeland Security Security Kristi Noem released a message from inside the notorious prison in an effort to send a message to violent migrant gang members being rounded up in the US.
Author: Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Published at: 2025-04-06 20:59:39
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