El Salvador Prisons Still on Red Alert
Four Salvadorian prisons are still on red alert after the weekend riot in Apanteos prison and death of 21 prisoners.

In line with the emergency decreed, the personnel assigned to those penitentiaries are still confined to barracks, faced with imminent new riots in the prisons.

In that context, the critical situation of the Salvadorian prison system was questioned again by Human Rights Attorney Beatrice de Carrillo, San Salvador Auxiliary Archbishop Gregorio Sosa, and others.

Opposition deputies said the massacre during the weekend has common points with that in August, 2004 in La Esperanza penitentiary, known as Mariona, and that both were a symptom of this system s failure.