Poster's note:Here's an extensive article loaded with many images of the gang prison in El Salvador. Worth your time to visit and read.
Should such a prison be built here?
That's for you to decide.
I've made my decision.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14373953/Inside-prison-living-dead-visit-El-Salvadors-godforsaken-40-000-capacity-mega-prison.htmlInside the prison of the living dead: DAVID JONES is the first British journalist to visit El Salvador's godforsaken 40,000 capacity mega prison... and his account will shake you to the coreBy David Jones in El Salvador
Feb 7, 2025
Excerpts:Sunk deep into shaven and elaborately tattooed skulls, a hundred pairs of eyes – hollow and dark –are boring directly into mine. The men they belong to have committed crimes evil almost beyond comprehension.
Members of two of the most savage rival gangs the world has seen, El Salvador’s Ms-13 and Barrio 18, they raped and tortured, murdered and mutilated, cut bodies to pieces and strewed them around the streets to strike terror in the neighbourhoods they controlled.
On my journey to the world-renowned prison that holds them, the Latin American country’s new Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT), my government escorts had shown me photographic evidence of their grisly handiwork.
One man had been impaled with a tree branch through his torso before being decapitated; another was anally gang-raped before being tied to a car and dragged to his death.
Standing a few feet away from the cage holding 100 perpetrators of this kind of savagery – one of 32 mass cells that line Module 8 in the vast fortress prison – is a deeply unnerving experience.
Under the men’s intense gaze, cold sweat trickles down my spine, and I feel waves of revulsion and fear. And yet, counter-intuitive though it might seem, these emotions are tempered by a degree of pity.
I think anyone with a modicum of compassion who witnessed the harrowing scenes that confronted me this week, when I became the first British journalist allowed inside this godforsaken place, would share that sentiment.
Everyone has their own vision of hell. For George Orwell, in his dystopian classic 1984, it was a boot forever stamping on a human face. However, I can imagine no greater torment than being consigned to CECOT, with no hope of ever being released, like the inmates here whose sentences range from 60 to more than 1,000 years.
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