El Salvador vows to send 2,000 more to prison permanently.
El Salvador's government sent 2,000 more suspects to a new prison built for gang members, and the justice minister vowed that "they will never return" to the streets. The administration of President Nayib Bukele asked for another extension of anti-gang emergency measures that would take the crackdown into its 13th month. Over the last 354 days, about 65,000 people have been arrested in the antigang campaign. Human rights groups say that there have been many instances of prisoner abuses and that innocent people have been swept up in police raids.