El Salvador has the highest rate of prisoners in the world, organizations alert - Proceso Digital

The emergency regime in El Salvador is three years old, its approval was on March 27, 2022. Its most recent extension was endorsed on Tuesday, March 4, by the Legislative Assembly. This measure began to be implemented at the request of the Government of President Nayib Bukele, in response to a resurgence of violence that on a single day in March of that year left 62 homicides. The Cabinet of Security made up of the National Civil Police, the Arm…

The prison rate in El Salvador is the "highest in the world," with 1,824 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, which raises prison overcrowding in the Central American country by 369.5 percent, alerted representatives of human rights organizations on Wednesday. El Salvador’s entry has the highest prison rate in the world, alerting organizations was first published in the Digital Process.

The report reveals that the overcrowding within the prison system is 369.5%, with the exception of the CECOT. SAN SALVDOR.- Different human rights organizations have presented the report “Three years of emergency regime: Systematic torture in El Salvador’s prisons”, reported 85 thousand people detained, received 6,889 complaints. Gabriela Santos, from the Human Rights Institute of the UCA (Idhuca), stressed that between 2022 and 2025 6,889 compl…

San Salvador, El Salvador. The rate of prisoners in El Salvador is the "highest in the world", with 1,824 people deprived of their liberty for every 100,000 inhabitants, which raises prison overcrowding in the Central American country by 369.5%, alerted representatives of human rights organizations on Wednesday. "There are different data that reflect that, for today, El Salvador has the highest rate of persons deprived of their liberty in the wo…