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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

El Salvador's Bukele proposes life prison sentences in nation that has imprisoned 1% of population

El Salvador Immigration Detention - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and his party are pushing forward a constitutional reform that would permit life prison sentences in a country that has imprisoned more than 1% of its population in its war on gangs.

The reform was proposed on Tuesday before El Salvador's legislature, which is firmly in the control of Bukele's party. The measure is likely to pass.

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