El Salvador's Mega-Prison Receives 2,000 More Gang Members

El Salvador has added another 2,000 inmates to its mega-prison, which has a 40,000-person capacity and promises that prisoners will "never return" to the streets. The government has arrested roughly 65,000 suspected gang members since approving emergency powers in March 2022, which also allowed it to approve and build the mega-prison. The prison is one of Latin America’s largest, with 37 guard towers and eight cellblocks that will be "impossible to escape." However, human rights organizations have tallied several thousand human rights violations and at least 80 in-custody deaths of people arrested during the state of exception.