TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador's unforgiving approach to murder, robbery, rape and extortion.
Great Swan Island, or the Islas del Cisne, is shown July 13 in Honduras. The government says it will build a maximum-security prison on this small island off its Caribbean coast to contain the leaders of the country’s most fearsome gangs.
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Relatives of inmates wait in distress June 20 outside the entrance to the women's prison in Tamara, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where a grisly gang massacre killed 46 people.
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