No escape! World's murder capital opens impenetrable prison as part of major gang crackdown

El Salvador has doubled its prison capacity after opening a 40,000-person facility this week in an effort to further crack down on the country's gang violence problem.

I spent some time in the Yucatan Peninsula. One day, we came upon a functioning jail/prison with a very unique design. Imagine those cinder blocks used to make simple shelving. In the Yucatan jungle, they built a very long, rectangular structure with cinder block walls. There is one door, and one guard tower high above. The walls are very high, and there is no roof. The place is right in the middle of the jungle. Part of the reason I am commenting is that the inside and outside of the building appeared to be the same, jungle. They had simply put up four walls, with no roof. This is better than the tent jail in Arizona. Imagine putting the worst of the worst inside, locking the door, and walking away. The guard tower is very high; the walls are so tall it would be difficult to stand on top of each other to reach the top, and the guards could always use those nonlethal beanbag guns on anyone who might try.

Anyone who actually survives their prison term and leaves that place will probably not want to return. Those with life sentences, well....if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.

My Salvadoran friends at church think President Bukele is as cute as a golden retriever puppy, and less of a horrid crook than most Salvadoran politicians, for what that’s worth.

My daughter said that San Salvador harbor was the hottest, most humid, and smelliest place she’d ever been, and that was after Thailand, Borneo, Guam, and Panama.

When I left El Salvador, the gang membership was larger than the entire army. When there is no morality, society disintegrates.

Partner. there is no hope for your country.

It is infiltrated by gangs and gang violence.

El Salvador is dead.

Th folks in El Salvador want to come to the U.S.A. but with all those folks coming as former gangsters from El Salvador the people in the U.S. are saying enough is enough with these type of folks.

We shout it out to Mayorkas and the Giant Sixth Grade Brain Biden and they can not hear us but they will next year.

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