article_snippet.sent: In all 1,177 Barrio 18 members were transferred.
article_snippet.sent: In a potentially incendiary move, Barrio 18 members at Izalco jail will mix with Barrio 18 members at the jail rivals from the hyper-violent Mara Salvatrucha gang, or MS-13.
article_snippet.sent: In a potentially incendiary move, Barrio 18 members at Izalco jail will mix with Barrio 18 members at the jail rivals from the hyper-violent Mara Salvatrucha gang, or M13 .
article_snippet.sent: And they will all be classified not by they gang affiliation, but by how dangerous they are.
article_snippet.sent: He said investigations indicated Members of the Barrio 18 gang had ties to some recent attacks on state institutions.
article_snippet.sent: eight gang members were part of  Barrio 18, according to the prosecutor's office.
article_snippet.sent: At least nine members of the gang Barrio 18 were killed in San Salvador the previous week in a confrontation with the army .
article_snippet.sent: after a 2012 truce between Barrio 18 - also known as 18th Street Gang, because it started in the 1960s near 18th Street in LA's Rampart District  - and MS-13 started to unravel.
highlights_snippet.sent: In total 1,177 were transferred to a different jail where they will mix with they arch rivals - Mara Salvatrucha .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: handcuffed members from the notorious Barrio 18 gang will now no longer be classified by gang affiliation, but by how dangerous handcuffed members from the notorious Barrio 18 gang are .