Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison. Really!

When two nutty professors sympathize with dangerous criminals!

Did these nutty professors express similar sympathies for the victims of these gangsters?

For leftists, the President of El Salvador, i.e. Nayib Bukele, is a red flag for his alleged authoritarianism.

"El Salvador President Nayib Bukele framed his offer to house “dangerous American criminals” and “criminals from any country” as a win-win for all.

The fee for transferring detainees to a newly built Salvadoran mega-prison “would be relatively low” for the U.S. but enough to make El Salvador’s “entire prison system sustainable,” Bukele wrote in a post on the social media platform X dated Feb. 3, 2025.

What was left unsaid is that the individuals would be knowingly placed into a prison system in which a range of sources have reported widespread human rights abuses at the hands of state forces. ...

As experts who have researched human rights and prison conditions in El Salvador, we have documented an alarming democratic decline amid Bukele’s attempts to conceal ongoing violence both in prisons and throughout the country. ..."

Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison