Inside El Salvador's 'hell on Earth' prison where Donald Trump is to banish US criminals

US President Donald Trump said this week helium volition nonstop convulsive criminals of each nationalities to "hell connected Earth" prisons successful El Salvador, a tiny state successful Central America

These chilling photos seizure the harrowing realities wrong the "hell connected Earth" jails successful El Salvador - wherever Donald Trump is acceptable to nonstop the US' convulsive criminals.

Dozens of inmates are crammed into cells successful the prisons successful the Central American country. Sentences scope from 60 to much than 1,000 years for those incarcerated astatine Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT), the newest of the jails there.

One of the world’s biggest prisons, with a 40,000 capableness (equivalent to astir fractional the UK’s existent situation population), CECOT was built 2 years ago. It present houses galore thousands of the worst of the worst gangsters. In that timeframe, much than 200 prisoners person died successful the slammer, it is thought.

For 23-and-a-half hours of the day, the men successful CECOT are obliged to squat connected mattress-less metallic bunks, stacked four-storeys high, similar shelves successful a B&Q store. They are allowed to talk lone successful whispers.

The 3 meals a time are ever atom and beans, pasta and a boiled egg. Their h2o is rationed by the guards who manus it to them and they usage a communal lavatory. They are lone permitted to scuttle retired of their cages, shackled manus and ft with heads bowed low, for a tiny fig of reasons.

David Jones became the archetypal British writer to sojourn CECOT and, successful a chilling first-person portion for Mail Online, the newsman recounts his experience. He wrote: "Having visited the US detention installation astatine Guantanamo Bay and the Robben Island situation wherever Nelson Mandela was held, the strategy astatine CECOT surely seems harsher. Terrorists held successful ‘Gitmo’ are astatine slightest afforded immoderate privileges and tin acquisition rehabilitation programs.

"They person entree to books and penning materials, tin interact with 1 another, workout successful the caller air, pass with household members, and look guardant to occasional visits. In CECOT nary of those things are permitted. The sole purpose is subjugation.

"They are evacuated erstwhile the guards complaint into the module brandishing instrumentality guns to signifier a ‘forced intervention’ and hunt their bunks. While this cleanable expanse takes spot they indispensable crouch connected the level successful cleanable rows, with their legs wrapped tightly astir the antheral successful beforehand of them and their caput pressed against his bare back, forming a quality jigsaw puzzle. Anyone who spoils the signifier by fidgeting receives a crisp baton jab to the ribs.

"Shut distant successful this void, successful a subtropical volcanic vale 2 hours from the capital, San Salvador, with nary wifi oregon mobile signals, these men person efficaciously ceased to exist. They are the surviving dead."

By 2015, El Salvador was the world’s execution capital, with 106 killings for each 100,000 of its six cardinal population: a complaint much than 100 times higher than Britain’s. However, El Salvador present has 1 of the lowest execution rates, projecting a ratio of little than 1 per 100,000 this year.

Prisons similar CECOT are, it is said, serving their intent then. Mr Trump's volition to nonstop criminals of each nationalities to the jails, though, has divided opinion. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele "has agreed to the astir unprecedented, extraordinary, bonzer migratory statement anyplace successful the world."

The US leader believes the determination volition assistance marque some countries "stronger, safer, and much prosperous" but small El Salvador, connected the Pacific coast, has a colonisation of conscionable six cardinal - a tiny fraction of the approximate 334 cardinal surviving successful the US.