[Pics] Prisoners Stripped Half-Naked, Sitting Tightly In Lines Despite Social-Distancing Order Amid COVID-19

The coronavirus outbreak is spreading everywhere in the world with the US recording mass infections in prisons. But over the weekend, human rights across the globe have been raging after disturbing photos of half-naked prisoners in El Salvador, crammed in lines, were released publicly.

Specifically, on Sunday, there were over 20 murders by gang members at Izalco prison, causing the most violent weekend since President Nayib Bukele took office last year. Bukele considered this an action to show strength, ordering those gang members to be put in sealed prison boxes, which he said they can no longer see the outside world. There were even metal sheets soldered onto the cell doors. He also put members from rival gangs into shared cells to prevent them from communicating with each other.

After the violent weekend, gang members at this prison were pressed together, half-naked, sitting in crammed lines as a punishment for the outbreak. Some of them are seen wearing masks, but almost everyone wore nothing to as protection against the infection. The startling pictures went online through the Bukele office’s official Twitter account, showing opposite measures to social-distancing that’s been practiced around the world, including the mandatory home quarantine order in the country.

In the photo posted by the government, the prisoners are seen sitting tightly in rows with their hands tied behind the back while police officers were in riot gear. The photos enrage human rights groups, who said that these people are derived other their liberty in a demeaning, humiliating manner.

Izalco prison in El Salvador is also known as the densest prison.

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