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2025-02-08 Caribbean-Latin America

Inside the prison of the living dead: DAVID JONES is the first British journalist to visit El Salvador's godforsaken 40,000 capacity mega prison

We’ve had reports about this prison before, but it’s good to be reminded, if we’re going to send illegal alien criminals to them.

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 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.

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.

Death would be infinitely more merciful. A thought that might concentrate the minds of the violent US criminals and lawless migrants Donald Trump aims to banish here, under the terms of an unprecedented deal agreed with El Salvador’s president this week. I will come back to that.

One of the world’s biggest prisons, with a 40,000 capacity (equivalent to almost half the UK’s current prison population), CECOT was built two years ago amid a huge crackdown on the gangs destroying the fabric of Salvadoran society.

Its director Belarmino Garcia declined to tell me how many prisoners are currently held there, but there are many thousands of the worst of the worst gangsters.

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#3 LOL, No! They just got there:
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Posted by Frank G 2025-02-08 07:06|| 2025-02-08 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Death would be infinitely more merciful.

But not for the virtue signalers who need to feel 'morally superior' to others.

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#5 BBC usually writes these hit pieces, but I guess they didn't make payroll for some reason...

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#6 I forget, did those terrorists at GITMO ever get a trial? I forget, it's been a while. I mean, we do like the Just-Us system. Just wondering.

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