# Bukele unveils plan that could free up to half of prisoners detained in gang crackdown

https://mins.news/en/item/100960

- Fox News, 2026-10-15 07:01 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.foxnews.com/world/el-salvador-bukele-announces-plan-free-half-prisoners-jailed-gang-crackdown

> Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele says officials will review cases of people detained under the state of emergency and consider monitored, conditional early release for as many as half. Human rights groups say the measure has fueled widespread arbitrary arrests, while Bukele defends it as necessary to curb gang violence.

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