Police in Honduras have taken over the country's violent prisons after a gang dispute left 46 inmates dead.
Video showed hundreds of shirtless male inmates, many tattooed and with their heads shaved in the heavily guarded Tamara prison.
Police say a deadly shooting at a pool hall in the city of Choloma may be related to the latest gang violence at a women's prison.
It echoes Leftist President Xiomara Castro's announcement last week that she would hand the military police control of the prison system.
That is a break from a past stance of demilitarising security.
The crackdown mirrors the one by neighbouring El Salvador earlier this year.
That's where prison security has been stepped up and more than 62,000 alleged criminals locked up in a clampdown on gangs.
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