El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele offers to accept deported individuals and U.S. prisoners as a way to ease America's prison overcrowding. This controversial deal follows a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who declared it unprecedented. Details remain unclear, with experts questioning its legality. Bukele suggests housing these inmates in a new mega-prison designed for gang control, but critics highlight the facility's harsh conditions and lack of rehabilitation programs, raising concerns about human rights violations and the overall viability of such an arrangement.
The U.S. would have to pay El Salvador to house the prisoners, though he did not disclose an asking price.
Bukele, who took office in 2019, says he's offering a release valve for America's vast prison system.
The maximum-security facility is known as CECOT, a Spanish acronym that translates to terrorism confinement center.
Inmates are served just one meal a day and are not offered educational or reintegration programs.
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