TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador’s unforgiving approach to murder, robbery, rape and extortion. Honduras’s progressive president once promised to address gang violence through systemic reforms to governance and the criminal justice system.
Honduras Wants To Build The West’s Only Island Prison Colony—and Lock 2,000 Gangsters Inside
MARLON GONZÁLEZ and MEGAN JANETSKY / AP, Time: World
Wed, 07/19/2023 - 4:21am
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