El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of ...
it banned the use of leg shackles, but now guards tell us that’s putting them and the public in danger. Earle spoke with Brian Englert, the President of the Allegheny County Prison Employees Union.
The day after he was arrested while working at a restaurant in Texas, Mervin Jose Yamarte Fernandez climbed out of a plane in shackles in El Salvador, bound for the largest mega-prison in Latin ...
Officers held their heads down to waist-level as they escorted them to the facility in shackles. The new inmates were then forced to kneel while prison guards shaved their hair and shouted commands.