The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Rev. Rye]

US deportees face brutal conditions in El Salvador mega-prison: ‘Severe overcrowding, inadequate food’

The Trump administration has flown 238 Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison that human rights groups say is designed to disappear people.

Despite a judge’s order temporarily blocking the move, the US government flew more than 200 men that it had accused of gang membership to the “Terrorism Confinement Center”, or Cecot – a draconian mega-prison that has become central to the promise of the Salvadorian president, Nayib Bukele, promise to rid his country of crime.

The prison, which can hold up to 40,000 people, has filled up since El Salvador declared a state of exception, allowing police and the military to arrest people on suspicion of gang affiliation without any evidence. Now, Venezuelan immigrants to the US, many of whom are also suspected of gang affiliation without apparent evidence, have joined Salvadorian prisoners in the Americas’ largest – and one of its cruelest – prison systems.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...r%20people.

It’s worth noting that conditions in the prison in question are legitimately horrible, often with 10-20 prisoners to a cell with zero regard for gang affiliation, and it appears that the jailers there work under the assumption that none of the inmates get out alive. It’s apparently the next best thing to just executing them.