Photos From The World’s Most Dangerous Prison Gang Transfer in El Salvador

These are photos from the prison transfer of of the world’s most dangerous gang members …Authorities in El Salvador moved prisoners from two of the country’s hyper-violent gangs into the same prisonfor the first time, in a bid to stop them running operations from behind bars.

Previosuly they kept members of the same gang in the same prison, but with the new move, they have mixed members of rival gangs, Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha.

Images show handcuffed members from the notorious Barrio 18 gang being marched onto buses taking them from Izalco jail to San Francisco Gotera in an effort to curb gangviolence.

In all 1,177 Barrio 18 members were transferred.The policy of mixing the gangs together came about when officials realised that gangs were directing criminal activity from within prison walls.

In January, the Salvador an government authorized the police to shoot ‘without any fear of suffering consequences’ if threatened by gang members.

Violence in El Salvador has increased over the past year after a 2012 truce between Barrio 18 – also known as 18thStreetGang, because it started in the 1960s near 18thStreetin LA’s Rampart District – and MS-13 started to unravel.

More photos after the cut...