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.
Dude from El Salvador here. Honestly I’d wish all the jails were set on fire. It looks like it sucks on this picture but the reality is something else. These fuckers extort from prison, they have cellphones, computers, they have a lot of benefits because people are afraid of them, the government can’t do shit since it’s an endless loop of circular arguments between left and right parties. During this time we have an average of 15 murders every day.
The government did a “truce” with them and declared some areas “sanctuaries” so they won’t kill in those areas. In reality is just a “Hey don’t kill too many people so I can get votes saying that it’s because of my plan ok?”, during this time they’re extorting, killing, raping and the worst part is that all of them are out of the idea of being re-integrated to society, the human rights steps to defend them even when they have killed families without mercy. Also after this so called “truce” we don’t see as many murders as before but the amount of people that disappear without a trace have increased… odd right?
If you lived here you’d see all the shit that has gone down because of these scum sucking social parasites. I have lived most of my life here and have seen the country slowly devolve into nothing more than a place where you have to be constantly moving since they’re expanding and you don’t want to be remotely close to their areas.
These are not secretive prisons, these are just another base of operations for them and the main gang members have ample space, what you see here are the bottom feeders.
Edit: oh and by the way, these are temporary prisons, they release more than 90% of all of them because our legal system sucks. So all of these guys were probably released after a couple of days.
I saw people die right in front of my former house, and honestly I feel absolutely no pity for them. It’s true that I have no right to say who lives and who dies, but when you live through this reality, your heart hardens and you realize that in some parts of the world such as this country… well… life is cheap.
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