Posted on 02/25/2023 12:13:36 AM PST by Morgana
A mega-prison in El Salvador has opened its doors for its first 2,000 inmates of suspected gang members - who upon their arrival found out there are not enough beds for everyone and there are no mattresses at all.
The facility is designed to house 40,000 suspected gangsters and the security minister for the Central American country warned inmates they 'will never walk out of here'.
The move to the high-tech prison follows President Nayib Bukele's 'war' on crime.
Bukele tweeted that 'at dawn, in a single operation, we transferred the first 2,000 members to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT)' - which he claims is the largest mega-prison in the Americas.
Bukele added: 'This will be their new house, where they will live for decades, all mixed, unable to do any further harm to the population.'
They were loaded onto buses, hands and feet in shackles, to be taken to the new prison in a convoy that included helicopters.
The president posted a video showing barefoot, tattooed men wearing only white boxers, bent over and with their hands behind their shaven heads.
They were stacked closely together, each sitting with his legs on either side of the man in front of them as armed guards in balaclavas look on.
At the new facility, the men were similarly stacked up before being led in large groups into their cells, where they are left sitting on the floor before stacked metal beds with no mattresses visible.
'We are eliminating this cancer from society,' justice and security minister Gustavo Villatoro said on Twitter.
'Know that you will never walk out of CECOT, you will pay for what you are... cowardly terrorists,' he added.
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Good stuff.
Although, I’d still want a death penalty for the worst of them.
Wagner Group material.
Fascinating pictures. It looks medieval.
No mattresses. 80 metal bunks and 2 toilets for every 100 prisoners. That scarcity may be by design, but it seems like it would cause conflict and disorder.
The inmates appear to be amazingly compliant and even humble.
40,000 doesn’t seem right. And if it is right, it doesn’t seem smart.
Until the mass escapes engineered by the gangs.
But this is also why so many countries are shipping these humans north.
What will it do to the souls of the guards?
Bukele: 'This will be their new house, where they will live for decades, all mixed, unable to do any further harm to the population.'…barefoot, tattooed men wearing only white boxers, bent over and with their hands behind their shaven heads.
…they are left sitting on the floor before stacked metal beds with no mattresses visible.
'We are eliminating this cancer from society,' justice and security minister Gustavo Villatoro said on Twitter.
'Know that you will never walk out of CECOT, you will pay for what you are... cowardly terrorists,' he added.
In a couple of his early stories Heinlein introduced the concept of “Coventry”. A large physical region walled off from polite society, with its’ own crude anarchic economy, into which malefactors were thrust for life. “Sink or swim, we don’t give a damn about you anymore.”
Maybe some of these rights groups can put them up in their homes.
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Seeing what those prisons look like in South and Central America, I don't even want to cross our southern border for vacations.
Biden amnesty material.
Antifa members and democratic voters in good standing!
... tattooed men ...
Easier to locate the folks with gang tat’s.
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