El Salvador's Mega-Prison Receives 2,000 More Suspected 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, and the prison is already at 10% of its maximum capacity just one month after opening. The right to association is suspended, and police don’t have to inform someone being arrested of their rights. Non-governmental organizations have tallied several thousand human rights violations and at least 80 in-custody deaths of people arrested during the state of exception.