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Uncle Joe

(61,242 posts)
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:10 AM 23 hrs ago

'Worst of the worst': Go inside El Salvador's fortress prison for gang members



Nov 14, 2024 #CNN #News

We get rare, exclusive access inside El Salvador’s Cecot prison, where some of the country’s most notorious gang members are held, isolated from the rest of society. Join us as David Culver tours the controversial high-security facility with El Salvador’s prison officials, capturing the tight security, packed cells, and firsthand accounts from inmates. With Cecot likely to receive more criminal migrants from the U.S. under President-elect Trump’s immigration plan, the prison has become a focal point in El Salvador’s crackdown on gangs. While critics say the prison’s strict control and isolation of inmates is a violation of human rights, many locals see it as essential in keeping brutal violence from seeping back into society. #CNN #News

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I would take statements of "feeling safer" or "admissions of guilt" from people living in El Salvador with a huge grain of salt as they're ruled by an authoritarian government with little to no regard for human or civil rights. The people in El Salvador are no more free to express themselves than protesting Russians being arrested in Moscow for holding up blank sheets of paper.



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'Worst of the worst': Go inside El Salvador's fortress prison for gang members (Original Post) Uncle Joe 23 hrs ago OP
...deathplace of Oscar Romero.. thomski64 22 hrs ago #1

thomski64

(648 posts)
1. ...deathplace of Oscar Romero..
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:36 AM
22 hrs ago

..under Reagan..now Krasnov and the little bitch nazi Stephen Miller
have outsourced Auschwitz..administrative error, but can't be fixed.. Gitmo wasn't ugly enough for these reptiles...

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