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

Earlier this week, Kit Johnson blogged about a chilling Time Magazine story about conditions for migrants transported to El Salvador.

In The Conversation (“Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison”), Mneesha Gellmanand and Sarah C. Bishop tell us more:  “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.”

KJ