In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, El Salvador has adopted an unprecedented measure: putting members of rival gangs together in prisons.
It is the first time that, in practice, the South, or truce, has been run in the prison system.
In September 2004, El Salvador made a controversial public policy move, assigning entire prisons to one gang, because they already had thousands of their members incarcerated. The Ciudad Barrios prison had been handed over to MS-13 for almost 15 years."It was the headquarters of the gang," Osiris Luna said. Since August, rival gangs have shared sectors of the prison but not individual jail cells. That changed in April.
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