Richard Madeley has visited the world’s toughest prison in El Salvador where 3,000 shaven-headed inmates including gang members, rapists and terrorists, are packed behind floor-to-ceiling bars.
The broadcaster spent time inside the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), where suspected gang members sit in metal bunks stacked four beds high in concrete cells.
The facility has become the cornerstone of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s war on drug cartels and key to deportations from the US under President Donald Trump.
Prisoners wear only boxer shorts with their heads shaved, lights are never switched off and there are no family visits, recreational spaces or rehabilitation programmes.
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