Another prisoner spoke to Cristosal about one guard who would threaten inmates by saying: “You’ll leave here alive only if you’re lucky.” The shocking report said: “While [inmates] kneeled, [guards] gave them electric shocks, and they drew blood from one.
Terrifying reality facing Americans in El Salvador jails – 'one water a day' to 'torture' American criminals could be sent to El Salvador's brutal mega-prisons after an unprecedented migrant deal.
US President Donald Trump responded to an offer by El Salvador and said: “It’s no different than our prison system, except it would be a lot less expensive, and it would be a great deterrent.”.
The country’s main gangs are MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) and Barrio 18 (18th Street gang) and imprisoned members, who have tattoos showing their loyalties, have to deliberately sleep beside people they would consider enemies on the outside.
One man, with a fictitious name of Manuel, was accused of being a gang member and spent months inside an El Salvador prison.
