Some American jails aren't really any better than a lot of what you described. Especially some of the southern facilities. Don't go writing' hot checks down in Mississippi....
For months, they say, they were beaten by prison guards, shot with pellets, deprived of adequate medical care and denied any due process inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement.
“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically,” said José Mora, one of 252 Venezuelan migrants recently held at the notorious mega-prison known as Cecot, after being deported there by the US.
They slept on metal bunks with no mattresses, shared a cell with nine other people, ate the same meatless meals every day, and were only allowed to shower once per day at 4 a.m.
Anyone who disobeyed would either be beaten or have their food taken away, the ex-detainees told CNN.
Martínez alleged that he was once punished for putting his head through the cell bars when he felt sick. He said he was taken to a different cell, where about eight guards beat him and fractured his right arm.
At a certain point, the prisoners decided they’d had enough, so they launched a hunger strike demanding basic human rights, as well as access to lawyers and the press.
But that act of defiance was met with a fierce response, according to Mora.
“When we protested, they shot at us point-blank with rubber bullets, point-blank into the cell,” Mora said. “We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”
