San Salvador, El Salvador - May 22, 2024

The government of Nayib Bukele launched the "Zero Leisure" plan, under which prisoners in El Salvador will work as labourers, cooks and in other trades to repay society for the crimes they committed. Since its arrival, the administration has declared war on gangs such as the Mara Salvatrucha and displayed prisoners in conditions that have raised much controversy.

The government headed by Bukele has reported that "there are about 2,000 inmates in the trust phase who are part of the Zero Leisure Plan and who daily join the activities that are distributed in 50 commissions" and that under the new penitentiary system the necessary conditions have been created to achieve that 100 % of those deprived of liberty are disciplined in productive activities.

Just this weekend, the media in that country replicated another day of the "Zero Leisure" programme, which was launched in 2020. The images have not gone unnoticed on social networks, where several users, even from other countries, praise the measures in the face of the insecurity they are experiencing.

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the detained gang members in El Salvador;
2. various of the gang members detained in maximum security prisons;
3. Some of the prisoners working in the framework of the Plan Cero Ocio.