Reports on El Salvador's State of Exception and Prisons
Izalco prison Last month human rights groups released important reports documenting human rights abuses suffered under the State of Exception and within the country's prisons. El Salvador is now in its fourth year under the "emergency" measures which define the new normal in the county. Six Salvadoran human rights organizations released a report titled 3 Years of the State of Exception: Systematic Torture in the Prisons of El Salvador . The report comprehensively gathers data about the 85,000 persons captured during the State of Exception. Their study makes the important point that more than 100,000 persons are held in old prisons in a system designed to hold 28,000 persons, while the CECOT mega-prison purportedly has a capacity of 40,000 but only holds 14,000 (including 255 delivered into the prison by the United States). The report gathers descriptions of the poor conditions and abuses inside those overcrowded prisons from more than 30 persons who w...