6 MS-13 Gang Members Hung During Salvadorian Prison Riot

6 MS-13 Gang Members Hung During Salvadorian Prison Riot

By Prison Legal News

Six Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members were hanged during a riot at a juvenile rehabilitation center in Tonacatepeque on September 24, 2013 — El Salvador’s Prisoners’ Day.  Two of the dead were minors, and four were adults who had been sentenced at a younger age.  Police believe the murders were carefully calculated gang killings.  Prisons in El Salvador are notoriously overcrowded and violent as thousands of members of the country’s notorious MS-13 and 18th Street gangs await trial or serve their sentences.  The two rival gangs signed a truce in March 2012, but there is fear it may be crumbling, with gang-related murders on the rise.

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