Authorities move the first group of 2,000 suspected members of El Salvador’s gang to one large prison.
Na di centerpiece was declared war against crime by President Nayib Bukulele.
Dem arrests tens to thousands of suspected gangsters in di kontri, a state of emergency for increased murders and oda violence crime.
Di prison can eventually hold more than 40,000 pipo.
Pictures show how di first big group of inmates – with tattoos without shoes – dey enta di facility with chains.

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Di prisoners can be saddened for floor with dia heads behind heads wey der shave, closeted before dem take them to dia cells.

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President Bukele tweeted says dem transfer di first 2,000 pipo “at dawn, for one single operation” go di Center for di Confinement of Terrorism, wey im say na di largest jail for Americas.
“Dis go be di new house, wia dem go live for decades, all mixed, wia dem no harm di population.”

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Di mega-prison – for Tecoluca, 74 kilometers (46 miles) southeast of di capital San Salvador – e gets eight buildings.
Each receives 32 cells measuring approximately 100 square meters (1.075 square feet), to house “more than 100” prisoners.
Di cells can only have two sinks, and two toilets.

WIA DIS FOTO COME OUT, REUTERS
Di mega-prison – for Tecoluca, 74 kilometers (46 miles) southeast of di capital San Salvador – e gets eight buildings.
Each receives 32 cells measuring approximately 100 square meters (1.075 square feet), to house “more than 100” prisoners.
Di cells can only have two toilets and one sink each.

WIA DIS FOTO COMES OUT OF, REUTERS

WIA DIS FOTO COME OUT, REUTERS
President Bukele Bin declared “war on Gangs” last March. He also passed emergency measures wey im didn’t extend many times.
Di emergency powers can be controversial because they limit constitutional rights such as the right for suspects to be arrested without warrants.

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Anti-crime drive: More than 64,000 suspects have been arrested
Authorities believe criminal gangs MS-13, Barrio-18, and other gangs can kill dozens of people and be responsible for drug trafficking, extortion, murder, and homicide. Goment tok, di plan of di mass arrests na be to make di criminal gangs “disappear completely”.
Human rights organizations claim innocent pipo have been dey captured for di policy and that some pipo are being subject to “cruel or inhuman treatment”
However, the Bukele anti-gang push is still popular with Salvadorans.
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