“Put everyone in jail so they don’t kill,” says Bukele about the high rate of incarceration in El Salvador

The president of The Savior, Nayib Bukelereacted this Tuesday to a publication on the social network X in which reference was made to a high rate of incarceration in the Central American country.

The bill Scary.org He published an image with gang members in a prison and accompanied the message: “A prison in El Salvador. A country that was once known for having the highest homicide rate in the world now has the highest incarceration rate in the world”.

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The president reacted to the publication and wrote on the same social network: “Okay, let’s see: The highest homicide rate in the world = the highest number of street killers in the world”.

OK let’s see:
The highest homicide rate in the world = the highest number of killers on the streets in the world
Solution?
Put them all in prison so they can’t kill anymore.
Result:
Highest incarceration rate in the world / Safest country in the Western Hemisphere
It’s not rocket science ????????‍♂️ https://t.co/2c7XpES6Pv

-Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 14, 2024

“Solution?he asked and pointed “put them all in jail so they can’t kill anymore”.

“Result: Highest incarceration rate in the world/safest country in the Western Hemisphere. It’s not rocket science” he added.

The president Nayib Bukele takes place in The Savior The “war against gangs”Under an exceptional regime, a measure that became the main and only security measure and through which around 76 thousand people were captured, all accused of being gang members or collaborators of said gangs.

As the expert explained to EFE in 2023 Zaira NavasBefore the start of the emergency regime, El Salvador already had a high overpopulation and a high rate of overcrowding in prisons.

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Navas, from the human rights organization Cristosalindicated that for 2021 the penal centers reported an installed capacity of 32 thousand people, but the number of inmates was “much older”.

O “war against gangs”It also brought Bukele more popularity, which also allowed him to be re-elected for a second consecutive term in a country where the Constitution does not allow it.

However, national and foreign organizations denounced human rights violations during the emergency regime and indicated that the number of prisoners who died in state custody amounts to more than 200.

Source: Elcomercio

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