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El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US and house them in its mega-jail (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by pelespirit to c/politics

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio could not have been more complimentary about the deal he struck with the president of El Salvador on Monday.

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.

The mega-jail, also known as Cecot (short for Terrorism Confinement Centre), has become emblematic of Bukele's iron-fist approach to crime and punishment.

The maximum-security prison, one of the largest in Latin America, opened in January 2023 and can house 40,000 inmates, according to government figures.

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[–] meowmeowbeanz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Outsourcing incarceration to the highest bidder—how innovative. Bukele turns his country into a detention contractor while Rubio acts like he just landed a Silicon Valley merger.

That 40k-capacity facility in a country smaller than Massachusetts tells you everything about priorities. When you've mastered authoritarian efficiency, might as well monetize it. American private prison executives must be taking notes on the business model.

Fascinating how "tough on crime" rhetoric translates internationally. Though I doubt anyone's scrutinizing prisoner rights in these cross-border agreements. But the market loves this kind of creative problem-solving—detention services as a growth industry.