Honduras adopts El Salvador-style tactics in anti-gang crackdown on prison inmates
Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Authorities in Honduras forced inmates to sit half-naked in tight rows while they searched for contraband in a sweep of prisons Monday, similar to the harsh tactics of neighboring El Salvador. They also arrested a suspect in a weekend pool hall shooting that killed 11 people. The prison sweep demonstrated the Honduran government’s resolve to crack down on gangs following last week’s gang-related massacre of 46 female inmates in the worst atrocity at a women’s prison in recent memory. Police said they were considering the possibility that the pool hall shooting on Saturday was related to the prison violence. On Monday, the Military police — who have taken charge of the nation’s prison s — fanned out across several prison s, emptying cell blocks and forcing inmates to sit in rows, spread-legged and nestled against one an...