#mega prison

It's fucking appalling that people only give a shit about the megaprisons in El Salvador now that they are directly affecting American politics. Prior to this if you found anyone talking about the prisons - and that was rare - the overwhelming sentiment was that it was Bukele's country to do with as he wished and that he was only 'cleaning up the streets', nevermind the gross human rights violations and absence of any form of due process. What did it fucking matter that there were tens of thousands of people stuffed into what amounts to concentration camps, right? Because he was 'cleaning up the streets', right? And they were clearly all gang members, even the old men and little boys, right? Even the thousands that had no obvious affiliation to any gang? Because fuck what all those human rights orgs have been saying until it affects americans.