Posted on 05/30/2023 10:06:41 PM PDT by Angelino97
At least 153 people who were arrested since El Salvador instituted emergency powers have died in state custody, according to a report by a human rights group.
The special powers were introduced in March 2022 to battle powerful street gangs based in El Salvador in the President Nayib Bukele's 'war on gangs'.
None of those who died, which included four women with the rest being men, had been convicted of a crime they were accused of at the time of their arrest, according to the report by Central American human rights group Cristosal.
The report by the NGO said that 29 of the deaths were confirmed as violent and 46 more were thought to be suspicious.
The bodies of most of these 75 people showed signs of torture, beatings or strangulations, the report said. Other deaths which showed signs of injury were classified as having an 'undetermined' or 'natural' cause of death.
Some of the deaths showed signs they resulted from deliberate denial of medical assistance, medicine and food, including some deaths resulting from malnutrition.
The report says the deaths reveal punitive policies carried out by guards and prison officials, stating that such actions would have required authorisation and backing by the top-level security officials.
The government has not provided an official count of deaths among the incarcerated.
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Right, never understood the new Gascon type mentality. Where it’s better to let an entire regions of thousands and thousands of people live in fear than to let a small % of criminals suffer.
I think it’s part of a plan to bring us down. Cloward- Piven style.
How many are sitting in that crowded jail? There’s what? A thirty year supply? The jail needs to be emptied for those who might have half an ounce of compassion for their fellow man.
How many people did those shitty humans known as “prisoners” torture, rape and murder?
No matter what they are “suffering”, it will never be enough for what they have done.
Given these are gangbangers and murderers and given that El Salvador has been plagued by sky high rates of crime and murder for a few decades now, my compassion for my fellow man starts and ends with the innocent people victimized by these thugs. Pack 'em in. I don't give a damn about them.
Tortured prisoners? What did (WOULD) those same people do on the outside?
If they have the tattoos...well, they chose that line of work.
Don’t waste the real estate, don’t waste the food on terminal hard core criminals. Do like they’d do, dig a trench, fill it, groom the surface and dig a new trench.
CRY ME A RIVER——They don’t even deserve prison.
They deserve a MASS GRAVE.
AND-—BIDEN is giving them CELL PHONES to organize
I have a feeling the prisoners are the ones doing the killing and torturing. But seeing as a “human rights watch” group is reporting it of course the prisoners are innocent victims wrongly convicted.
You’re right.
Yep getting rid of filth is a dirty job.
143 out of 40,000? That’s hardly a reason to be concerned.
Last I read, there were zero murders in El Salvador in the last year.
I wonder how tourism is going there?
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