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| | americas.org - Some 32 Die in Prison Fight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | On August 18, a fight involving about 400 jailed members of the Mara 18 gang and about 100 other prisoners left 32 people dead and 23 wounded at La Esperanza, a maximum security prison in Mariona, just north of San Salvador. |
 | | La Esperanza prison has the capacity to house 800 prisoners, but as of August 16 it was holding 3,194. |
 | | Rodolfo Garay Pineda, El Salvadors general director of prisons, said La Esperanza would be remodeled to implement a panoptic security plan, under which the infrastructure will be rebuilt in concrete, and the prison will have greater control over the prisoners. |
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