El Salvador has doubled its prison capacity after opening a 40,000-person facility this week in an effort to further crack down on the country's gang violence problem. "All those home boys, those terrorists in the organization that made our beloved Salvadoran people suffer, will be housed and subjected to a severe regimen," El Salvador’s Prisons Director Osiris Luna said on state television. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said the country’s "Terrorism Confinement Center" mega-prison, now one of Latin America’s largest, will have 37 guard towers and eight cellblocks that will be "impossible to escape," The Times of England reported. Roughly 600 troops and 250 police officers will help secure the prison, which will sit on some 410 acres. TEXAS MAN ALLEGEDLY MURDERED DJ GIRLFRIEND IN COLOMBIA, STUFFED BODY IN SUITCASE AND TOSSED IN DUMPSTER The prison will serve as a powerful new tool in the country’s "war against gangs," which has proven popular with the beleaguered population. 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 rules, such as no longer requiring a warrant for an arrest and granting the government access to citizens’ communications. PERU EVACUATES HUNDREDS OF TOURISTS FROM MACHU PICCHU AMID WIDESPREAD VIOLENT PROTESTS, GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN El Salvador’s congress extended the state of exception several times, resulting in more than 46,000 arrests of alleged gang members.
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