Having worked briefly in El Salvador during the Emergency Regime and the War on Gangs, I was keeping track of the building of the mega-prison known as Cecot (the Terrorism Confinement Centre). At the time, I learned and reported that Cecot technically was/is violating the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (a.k.a. The Nelson Mandela Rules).
However, whether the Mandela rules are violated or not, there isn’t a lot of sympathy being given to those murderous, sadistic gang members in that prison. The entire nation lived in terror for years.
(The Salvadoran gangs were designated as terrorist organizations, and anyone with a gang tattoo would face an automatic 20-year prison sentence.)
Nonetheless, despite El Salvador President Bukele’s generous offer to provide prison space to hold US prisoners at the mega-prison, could the US do that? If the prisoners are US citizens, they can’t. And then there are the Mandela rules matter, prisoner rights, etc… It’s complicated.
But it’s a nice offer that could be considered. It would be like a privatized foreign prison, a contracting business that could bring revenue for El Salvador… If it is allowed.
–RdM
See BBC News report ‘Could US criminals be sent to El Salvador’s mega-jail?’: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4jx8xyjgo
— The Trump administration’s top diplomat appeared delighted yet stunned by the fact that President Nayib Bukele should have “agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world”.
Bukele had offered to take in people deported from the US, regardless of their nationality, and house them in El Salvador’s mega-jail.
“We can send them and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said.
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After at least 4 decades of failed prison reform in Canada and the US. we should welcome most aspects of a privatized prison system, like this, across Canada and the U.S. Certainly you must have certain human rights met: food, water, shelter, healthcare. But that’s it. Building more prisons would employ tens of thousands in the construction phase, and later in the administrative/security phase. privatize them if necessary. It’s good for the economy.
Remove the privileges. What do murderers and rapists need with TV’s, cellphones, gyms, or libraries? If you want to rehabilitate prisoners, I again refer you to the last 4 decades of wasted time and effort.
None of this will happen in Canada, since we let murderers and rapists walk the streets freely, while they wait for their court date, or just skip it and go out and commit again. I’d rather see them shipped to prisons like these than let murderous scum walk free. I don’t care who disagrees. After 27 years in public service I’ve seen too much of criminal behaviour to give damn about rehabilitating miscreants.