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El Salvador's prison system may be the world's smartest design

Posted on 2/21/25 at 4:28 pm
Posted by Napoleon
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 4:28 pm
I know by now we all heard how El Salvador got a new president that some call far right and extreme, but facts are he has taken the most crime ridden nation in the Americas and turned it around. Mainly by putting ALL the gang members in CECOT a new supermax prison where they are never allowed to see daylight and are kept in clean but rough conditions.

It's not what they are doing to the worst that is so great. It's what they are doing for all the other prisoners. Prisons are education camps with "zero leisure". You sleep, eat and go to school or work and that's it. For every day you work you get two days taken off your sentence. What they are learning is almost every trade, CPR and medical skills and they even have culinary schools and a full university. The prisoners are well behaved and seem positive, because the alternative is being sent to a place worse than hell. But they have no drug issues, very little inamate on inmate crime and they credit it all to segregating gangsters and rehabilitating everyone else.

With the work force they have now they have been able to greatly contribute the the economy and build a skilled workforce of thousands quickly.
They have a textile factory that has 3 shifts of 2800 workers putting out constant stuff.

We could easily follow suit in my opinion.

Here is a well done Youtube video that interviews guards, prisoners and inmates. It looks more like a factory and a university than a prison.



This post was edited on 2/21/25 at 4:31 pm
Posted by LigerFan
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 4:33 pm to
Unfortunately will never happen here.
Posted by Turnblad85
Member since Sep 2022
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 4:34 pm to
If I were in prison, Id sure rather work than stand around all day trying to not get fricked in the arse.
Posted by tiggerthetooth
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Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 4:37 pm to
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If I were in prison, Id sure rather work than stand around all day trying to not get fricked in the arse.


Thanks prison Mike, that's exactly what prison is probably like.
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 4:38 pm to
more information on CECOT their Supermax prison.

El Salvador also does not allow cell phones to work within 2km of their prisons.

Posted by holdmuh keystonelite
Member since Oct 2020
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 4:38 pm to
Depending on who Trump picks to lead the prison system, we may make some progress to that. Just today the BOP officially did away with all Tranny inmate privileges they were getting like pat search exemptions and 'female' things off commissary.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 4:42 pm to
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very little inamate on inmate crime and they credit it all to segregating gangsters and rehabilitating everyone else.


This is the way. A lot of people in jail for minor offenses get corrupted by the gangsters because they’re forced to pick a side for protection. If you refuse you get beaten up or worse. To get that protection you have to do things for them that lead to more trouble.

It’s smart to separate gang affiliates from regular people
Posted by Zephyrius
Wharton, La.
Member since Dec 2004
8575 posts
Posted on 2/21/25 at 4:50 pm to
Search youtube for the Pierce Morgan/ Steve Bannon interview.

Bannon gives some incite with his experience in prison. Bannon says prison reform is coming.
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
70892 posts
Posted on 2/21/25 at 4:53 pm to
Craz that the inmates are only fed rice, corn and tortillas and a sugar protein drink. That diet alone would make mne want to die.

But thats only for murderers.
Posted by Kjnstkmn
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Member since Aug 2020
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:27 pm to
frick around and you might get to visit it in person

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Posted by Kjnstkmn
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:28 pm to
Posted by gizmothepug
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2015
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:34 pm to
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frick around and you might get to visit it in person


American citizens are never going to be sent to El Salvador to serve a prison sentence.
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:34 pm to
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Steve Bannon

Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
43337 posts
Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:34 pm to
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Unfortunately will never happen here.

Nope
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:41 pm to
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Thanks prison Mike, that's exactly what prison is probably like.


Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
56725 posts
Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:42 pm to
all he had to do to fix crime in el salvador is arrest everybody with tattoos



when is trump gonna do that here?
Posted by bountyhunter
North of Houston a bit
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:44 pm to
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Unfortunately will never happen here.

That's because of the capitalistic nature of prisons in the United States. They want to keep prisons full, it's good for business. Giving vocational skills helps them break the cycle.
Posted by Kjnstkmn
Vermilion Parish
Member since Aug 2020
15868 posts
Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:50 pm to
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American citizens are never going to be sent to El Salvador to serve a prison sentence.


Then why did our Secretary of State negotiate a deal to do just that? I’m sure we have some in Gitmo already.

England used to send theirs to Australia to let them starve.

Trump is hard on crime, he keeps talking about the death penalty for drug dealers.
This post was edited on 2/21/25 at 7:53 pm
Posted by Sterling Archer
Member since Aug 2012
7866 posts
Posted on 2/21/25 at 7:50 pm to
The videos of them running in shackles always looks staged to me.

If not, I wonder what they did to get to comply like that
Posted by gizmothepug
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2015
8075 posts
Posted on 2/21/25 at 8:14 pm to
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England used to send theirs to Australia to let them starve.


We aren’t England and it’s not the 1800’s. Do you really think American criminals will be shipped off to El Salvador? Being tough on crime is one thing, sending American citizens who are criminals to other countries to serve out a sentence is something completely different. It’s not happening.
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