Wow. The prison is named Cecot. I just read a few articles on it. That place is fucked up. Was built for 20,000 people, but capacity then doubled. Like 80 people to a cell with no sheets or pillows on all metal beds. A bucket of water in each cell to drink. You eat (no meat ever served) in your crowded cell that has no chairs and the lights stay on 24/7 and you only get out of your cell 30 minutes a day. The country more or less eliminated due process a few years back. No inmates are allowed visitors or phone calls or letters. Also, no books or games or playing cards or anything that could provide any sort of entertainment. If you’re supposed to go before a judge it’s done over video conference call. Lot of other fucked up shit, too.
The US paid El Salvador $6,000,000 to take the 240ish people there. Like $25,000 a person.
I was wondering about that. Like these people are being deported, but instead they’re just in a gulag for how long… Are they actually being repatriated to their country of origin?
I was being serious, they’ve never released a prisoner from there.
And they arrest so many people that even in the worst conditions they shouldn’t be dying fast enough to make room.
It’s not a gulag, it’s a straight up death camp.
It’s not going to take long before people start realize ICE grabbing you means certain death, and that at that point they legitimately have nothing to lose and start reacting appropriately when they’re grabbed.
Most of the people we’ve (the US) sent there have not been “deported” and cannot be repatriated because they were never citizens of El Salvador. Lots were apparently Venezuelan, I guess, but I don’t really know how solid of a claim even that is because it really sounds like ICE has been instructed to just grab any brown people with tattoos when they go out on their raids. The people that have been forcibly removed from the US and human trafficked into El Salvador have been kidnapped and exiled, effectively given a lifetime sentence (however short that may be) in a foreign concentration camp without any due process or means for recourse.
As of 11 June 2024, CECOT had a population of 14,532 inmates. With a capacity for 40,000 inmates, CECOT is the largest prison in Latin America and one of the largest in the world by prisoner capacity.
Yeah that man is in pieces already
That place has literally never released a prisoner…
The place isn’t huge, and lots of people get there sent there.
But no one ever comes out.
I don’t think anyone can be returned from there because they put zero effort in keeping records of who is who, it’s a death camp.
Wow. The prison is named Cecot. I just read a few articles on it. That place is fucked up. Was built for 20,000 people, but capacity then doubled. Like 80 people to a cell with no sheets or pillows on all metal beds. A bucket of water in each cell to drink. You eat (no meat ever served) in your crowded cell that has no chairs and the lights stay on 24/7 and you only get out of your cell 30 minutes a day. The country more or less eliminated due process a few years back. No inmates are allowed visitors or phone calls or letters. Also, no books or games or playing cards or anything that could provide any sort of entertainment. If you’re supposed to go before a judge it’s done over video conference call. Lot of other fucked up shit, too.
The US paid El Salvador $6,000,000 to take the 240ish people there. Like $25,000 a person.
Those last few numbers were what the new head of DHS meant when he said he wanted to make deportations “more like Amazon prime”
They need to work on the return policy if they want to be like Amazon. It’s well within 30 days.
(I am so sorry I use comedy to survive the daily mental assaults)
The secret sixth stage of grief is gallows humor. I’ve been living there for a while 🫠
I’ll scream it at anyone who will listen - I’m old enough to remember when comedy and tragedy were two separate things.
100 people to a cell. Nope, that’s not a typo.
I was wondering about that. Like these people are being deported, but instead they’re just in a gulag for how long… Are they actually being repatriated to their country of origin?
The rest of their lives…
I was being serious, they’ve never released a prisoner from there.
And they arrest so many people that even in the worst conditions they shouldn’t be dying fast enough to make room.
It’s not a gulag, it’s a straight up death camp.
It’s not going to take long before people start realize ICE grabbing you means certain death, and that at that point they legitimately have nothing to lose and start reacting appropriately when they’re grabbed.
Most of the people we’ve (the US) sent there have not been “deported” and cannot be repatriated because they were never citizens of El Salvador. Lots were apparently Venezuelan, I guess, but I don’t really know how solid of a claim even that is because it really sounds like ICE has been instructed to just grab any brown people with tattoos when they go out on their raids. The people that have been forcibly removed from the US and human trafficked into El Salvador have been kidnapped and exiled, effectively given a lifetime sentence (however short that may be) in a foreign concentration camp without any due process or means for recourse.
This shit’s fucked.
Not to make light of anything, but “isn’t huge”?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center