{"id":213498,"date":"2023-08-25T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=213498"},"modified":"2023-08-25T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:34:10","slug":"inmates-crammed-in-crate-bunks-in-mega-prison-where-gang-members-are-tortured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/inmates-crammed-in-crate-bunks-in-mega-prison-where-gang-members-are-tortured\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmates crammed in crate bunks in mega-prison where gang members are ‘tortured’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A new prison has been ordered to make conditions even worse behind bars so gangsters are too scared to commit crime. <\/p>\n

    As part of a huge crackdown on rampant gang crime in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele built a new mega prison described as a "centre for terrorists" where some inmates are forced to sleep without a bed.<\/p>\n

    The high-tech jail in Tecoluca named Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) is designed for a whopping 40,000 prisoners and despite only being operational since February, it has already faced claims that inmates are tortured there.<\/p>\n

    READ MORE: Brutal mega-prison housing 40,000 gangsters opens up to new lags with chilling message<\/b><\/p>\n

    Recent reports suggested that masked inmates are crammed into crate-like bunks. Some 12,000 men are currently at the facility built in 2022.<\/p>\n

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    The Sun reported that around 75 inmates sleep on the metal cabins and are forced to share just two toilets and two sinks in a 100 square-metre cell. <\/p>\n

    The title also stated that prisoners plead for food and medicine for 'the terminally ill dying around them.' This is not unlikely, according to Cristosal, the primary civil society human rights organisation in El Salvador.<\/p>\n

    Cristosal said in May that dozens of inmates died as a result of torture, beatings, mechanical suffocation via strangulation or wounds or were left to die because of lack of medical attention in El Salvador's harsh prison system during Bukele's so called 'war on gangs'. <\/p>\n

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