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.

[dynachrome]

Lots of pics and info on life there.

[Dogbert41]

And when they die, the prison awaiting them will make this one seem like Paradise. I hope they are given chances to hear the Gospel every single day.

[Olog-hai]

Prison’s too good for people like that. Overdue for execution.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Selena Gomez is crying for them.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

visit El Salvador's godforsaken 40,000 capacity mega prison... and his account will shake you to the core

The Daily Mail's excess and hyperbole is what shook me to the core.

[dynachrome]

And AOC at the fence.

[Twotone]

There are crimes deserving of death. What purpose is served by jailing them forever?

[NorthMountain]

Caption to one of the pictures:

nmates with elaborately tattooed skulls. As the first British journalist to enter CECOT, I can imagine no greater torment than being consigned there

I can imagine ... being a victim of these demonic criminals might be worse than being consigned to the prison they now inhabit.

[NorthMountain]

El Salvador has a bad past ... I think they have developed a sort of allergy to the Death Penalty because of that past. They’d do well to get over that allergy ... IMO.

[MayflowerMadam]

And the El Salvador government has said they’re HAPPY to take prisoners from American — including Americans.

[allblues]

Maybe Bukele should offer them the Canadian solution, MAID.

[GingisK]

What purpose is served by jailing them forever?

To maximize their despair while on earth.

[Fungi]

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Instead, we now have free room and board at the expense of innocent souls forced to support evil incarnate. How is this just?

[Professional]

Make All Journalistas Broke Again

[NorthMountain]

including Americans.

To that I say "thanks, but no thanks". We'll take care of our own.

[JZelle]

Cheer up Sleepy Jean

[SauronOfMordor]

El Salvador has volunteered to take criminal aliens from the US.

They can be used as overflow from Gitmo.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

This is the way it's done. Awesome.

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

the first British journalist to visit El Salvador's godforsaken 40,000 capacity mega prison... and his account will shake you to the core

Won't bother me at all. Bukele is doing a great job of crushing the gangs in El Salvador - he understands that his job is to protect the law abiding citizens of his country, not the criminals. Our country acts like the opposite is true. Hopefully Trump reaches a deal to ship our violent illegals to Bukele's "godforsaken 40,000 capacity mega prison".

[Hammerhead]

Imagine what these animals would do to your daughter if given the chance.