El Salvador: 2,500 MS-13 Gang Members Left To Run Their Own Prison
Getty Images by EDWIN MORA 7 Sep 2015 Washington, D.C. 101 Members of the notoriously violent MS-13 gang are “so feared” in El Salvador that they are allowed to run their own detention facility, with the prison guards and the Salvadoran army ensuring that they remain incarcerated from the outside, reports Daily Mail. “They are drug pushers, murderers and weapons dealers – members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), a gang so feared in El Salvador that they have been left to run their own prison,” states the article. In 2013, British photographer Adam Hinton was granted access to the prison, called Penas Ciudad Barrios, and the area where their families live, known as Las Victorias and located in the country’s capital of San Salvador. “The men stand around aimless with nothing to do except kill what seem like an infinity of minutes, hours and days,” Hinton told Daily Mail. “The vast majority of the inmates are from the Barrios or slums. In El S...