Inside the secretive prison pits where El Salvador's most notorious gangs are crammed...

[a la izquierda]

Huddled together like cattle in a cage no bigger than a shed some of the men of El Salvador's prison pits have languished in these rancid, disease ridden holding cells for more than a year.
Designed only for temporary 72-hour stays, the sweltering cells, each 12 feet wide and 15 feet tall are crammed with more than 30 people - all veterans of the country's vicious war between the MS-13 and M18 gangs.
Segregated along tribal gang-lines, the men in these inhumane cells are hidden from public view, but one reporter from counter-culture magazine VICE, managed to gain access to throw light on the grizzly conditions they are consigned to spend their days living in.


[more at the link, plus photographs]


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2405792/Inside-secretive-prison-pits-El-Salvadors-notorious-gangs-crammed-like-livestock.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. God. It's going to take at least another attempt to get through the images!

Doesn't seem even possible ANYONE could keep putting people into those cages. It's a recipe for complete madness.

Beyond shocking.

They started going to the US to escape what was happening in El Salvador, while Reagan was President. It was a living hell there, relentless bloodshed, torture, oppression, sadism, terrorism.

What was happening destroyed that country, leaving it livable for only the right-wing elites. Guess they've got it made now, and look at the cost to the human beings.

Who could do this to people?

I thank you for posting this material. I intend to see it all.

[Link Speed]

2. Wait until you get to the one about the murder rates

Unreal

Heck, they turned the Honduran prisons over to the inmates a few weeks ago.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Revealed: Shocking images expose the secret El Salvador prison pens where gang members are held for

Revealed: Shocking images expose the secret El Salvador prison pens where gang members are held for years in sweltering, cramped and diseased conditions

Members of rival MS-13 and M18 gangs held for years in sweltering cells designed for a maximum 72-hour stay

John Hall
Friday 30 August 2013


Shocking new images have been released of the El Salvador prisons where gang members are held for years in cramped, diseased pits.


Although the cells are only designed for a maximum stay of 72-hours, many members of the rival MS-13 and M18 gangs have been held for over a year in sweltering cells that, despite being just 12 feet wide and 15 feet tall, are usually packed with more of 30 people.

The gangs are obviously kept strictly segregated, but the inhumane conditions and harsh treatment that every prisoner faces gives them an odd sort of unity.

Click here for a large gallery of photographs from inside the prison

Although the cells are only designed for a maximum stay of 72-hours, many members of the rival MS-13 and M18 gangs have been held for over a year in sweltering cells that, despite being just 12 feet wide and 15 feet tall, are usually packed with more of 30 people. Although the cells are only designed for a maximum stay of 72-hours, many members of the rival MS-13 and M18 gangs have been held for over a year in sweltering cells that, despite being just 12 feet wide and 15 feet tall, are usually packed with more of 30 people.

The images of El Salvador’s prisons emerged after photojournalist Giles Clarke visited the country to talk with locals about an uneasy truce that had broken out among the gangs following a vicious two-decade long war that, at its peak, claimed around 15 lives a day. Giles' work was later published by the pioneering counter–culture magazine VICE

After discussing the huge impact the truce had had on El Salvador’s homicide rate, a disgruntled police captain offered to take Giles to see how dangerously overcrowded the country’s prison system remains.

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/revealed-shocking-images-expose-the-secret-el-salvador-prison-pens-where-gang-members-are-held-for-years-in-sweltering-cramped-and-diseased-conditions-8791627.html