Everybody who has ever lived in a country wrought and wrecked by gang violence has wished fervently that their government would just go ahead and do something about it.

Well, El Salvador is most certainly doing something about it:

A mega-prison in El Salvador has opened its doors to its first 2,000 inmates of suspected gang members - who upon their arrival found out there are not enough beds for everyone and there are no mattresses.

The facility is designed to house 40,000 suspected gangsters and the security minister for the Central American country warned inmates they 'will never walk out of here'.

Seriously. They are not taking it easy on these guys:

'We are eliminating this cancer from society,' justice and security minister Gustavo Villatoro said on Twitter.

'Know that you will never walk out of CECOT, you will pay for what you are... cowardly terrorists,' he added.

A rough sentence, to be sure.

They probably shouldn't have joined a murderous criminal gang though.