El Salvador’s president orders ‘world’s largest jail’ to be finished in 60 days (2024)

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El Salvador’s president orders ‘world’s largest jail’ to be finished in 60 days (2)

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The president of El Salvador has ordered the completion of what could become the world’s largest prison, capable of holding 40,000 inmates as gang violence spirals across the country.

Nayib Bukele has admitted that at present prisoners enjoy access to “prostitutes, PlayStations, screens, mobile phones and computers”. As violence rises among rival gangs in prison, he has ordered the completion of a “mega-prison” within 60 days. It will have 37 guard towers and eight cell blocks and will be “impossible to escape”, Bukele said.

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The largest prison in the world is the Silivri Penitentiaries Campus in the northwestern suburbs of Istanbul, Turkey, according to Guinness World Records. An investigation by the Turkish parliament in November 2019 found the prison complex’s population was 22,781, just over

El Salvador’s president orders ‘world’s largest jail’ to be finished in 60 days (2024)

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After nearly 80 people were killed by criminals during a single weekend in March 2022, Bukele's government has since arrested over 71,000 people with alleged gang affiliations, leading to accusations of human rights violations being committed by El Salvador's security forces.

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SAN SALVADOR, July 9 (Reuters) - Salvadoran political party Nuevas Ideas chose President Nayib Bukele on Sunday as its candidate for the presidential elections of early 2024, even though the country's constitution does not allow consecutive terms for the presidency.

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