El Salvador: Prison Lockdown

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/americas/el-salvador-prison-lockdown.html

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El Salvador declared a state of emergency on Tuesday at seven prisons and transferred 299 high-ranking gang members at the start of “extraordinary measures” that the government has promised to take to combat gang violence. A package of additional measures was to be presented to the legislature on Wednesday that could include deploying more soldiers in a security role and declaring states of emergency in conflict zones. The emergency declaration puts inmates on lockdown and suspends family visits for 15 days. “They are going to be subjected to a higher security regimen, with greater control to make sure communication from inside the prison system is stopped,” said Mauricio Ramírez Landaverde, the minister of justice and public security.