El Salvador has declared a prison emergency as the country’s murder rate spiked from zero to 22 in just one day during lockdown.President Nayib Bukele has imposed a 24-hour lockdown in prisons, meaning inmates were crammed tightly together in one room sitting one behind the other.
Prisoners can be seen wearing just their pants with many using face masks, despite their heads being just inches away from each other, The Mirror reports.
Gang leaders are to be sent into solitary confinement in a bid to tackle to murder increase across the country, President Bukele has said.He wrote on Twitter: "No contact with the outside world.