Inside El Salvador’s Jails (Excerpt from ‘Gangs of El Salvador’)

El Salvador is set to eclipse Honduras as the country with the highest homicide rate in the world. By the end of September 2015, there had been around 5,000 murders this year, in a country with a population of just over six million. El Salvador’s murder rate is now the highest it’s been since the end of the country’s brutal civil war — there is on average one murder an hour. The staggering death toll follows the breakdown of a truce between powerful, rival gangs and the government. Police and military are