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... and his account will shake you to the core

Daily Mail ^ | 2-7-25 | DAVID JONES IN EL SALVADOR

[dynachrome]

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.

One man had been impaled with a tree branch through his torso before being decapitated; another was anally gang-raped before being tied to a car and dragged to his death.

Standing a few feet away from the cage holding 100 perpetrators of this kind of savagery – one of 32 mass cells that line Module 8 in the vast fortress prison – is a deeply unnerving experience.

[nonliberal]

Let’s send our illegals there.

[Twotone]

I was not insinuating that due care for all circumstances should not be weighed & considered. But when you have men (or women) who personally commit such heinous acts, it is a disservice to the rest of the prison population to keep them alive, not to mention the rest of the population if they should somehow get out. This country doesn’t have a death penalty. Too bad.

[PIF]

And AOC at the fence.
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Which one? There are 3. The outer one carries 15,000 volts.

[1ScrappyArmyMom]

Why the hell would it shake me to the core?
Freaking media scum crying for the worst of humanity.
ZFG for people who should faced the death penalty.
Damn these reporters to Hell.
They have zero sympathy for the victims.

[Nifster]

To protect society

Death penalty is cheaper. Use it

[piasa]

All it would take is for someone else to become president there, or an anti-incarceration party to win legislative seats and cut them loose.

[Palio di Siena]

That’s the point.
El Salvador gets paid for taking these prisoners.
They probably make money.
Although I wonder what the lifespan of an inmate is in that place.

[lee martell]

At this point in time, that prison is a law abiders dream.
Still, I do not expect it to last as is, for over the next 15 years. I hope to be wrong. The more they advertise the place , showing its interior and exterior layouts , the more likely security will be compromised.