Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network
The Kicker24 Apr 2025

Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network

A few years ago, El Salvador was one of the most violent nations in the world, with gang killings taking the lives of dozens of people every week. Nayib Bukele, elected president in 2019, changed all that—today, violence is way down. But his brute-force approach to the problem has involved mass arrests, secret deals, and forced disappearances into a harsh prison system—which is apparently the envy of many in the Trump administration. Filmmaker Neil Brandvold has covered much of El Salva...

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