‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the mega prison where the US *deported* #immigrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of #ElSalvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions at the notorious prison.
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https://wapo.st/3HbPOmE
One detainee was beaten unconscious. Others emerged from the dark isolation room covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another returned to his cell in tears, telling fellow detainees he’d just been sexually assaulted.
“Let’s hit him like a piñata,” guards shouted amid the beatings, detainees recalled, the blows echoing against the metal walls.
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They called it “La Isla” — The Island — the cell where #Venezuelans *deported* from the #US by the #Trump admin said they suffered some of the worst #abuse of their 125 days in #ElSalvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or #CECOT.
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The matching firsthand accounts across multiple interviews offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the mega prison, where inmates are denied access to lawyers & almost all contact with the outside world — & where about 14,000 Salvadorans remain incarcerated. Few detainees have ever left #CECOT, & fewer have spoken publicly of their experience there.
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