Name: El Salvador's New Super Prison is the Size of 7 Football Stadiums
Uploaded: 2024-02-16T18:58:48.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'El Salvador's New Super Prison is the Size of 7 Football Stadiums' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'El Salvador's New Super Prison is the Size of 7 Football Stadiums' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-16. Transcript available.

Meanwhile, the new president of El Salvador just won with an 85% vote.
85%.
So El Salvador went from having the highest murder rate in the world
to now the highest incarceration rate in the world.
This guy is locking up everyone.
They have a brand new 40,000 person prison
that's the size of seven football stadiums.
Whoa.
Jamie, have a look at this football stadium thing.
It is wild what they've done.
And he's just cleaned up the streets.
He's gone super aggressive.
There's some dangers of what he's done,
which is they're being very indiscriminate with who gets convicted.
12-year-olds can be, I haven't heard if they are,
but 12-year-olds can be treated like adults
and thrown into the prison as well.
You know, if they break down the door and come in this room
and you're a bad guy and me and Jamie are not bad guys,
we're probably going to prison as well.
So there's probably a good bit of collateral damage that's come with this.
But this dude is like, it's insane.
It's insane what he's been able to do.
And yeah, 85% was the vote.
Yeah, here we go.
Wow.
Inside El Salvador's mega prison.
Turn the volume on, Jamie.
You'll find some of El Salvador's most dangerous gang members
packed into massive cells, towers of bunk beds,
and what looks like bird cages.
Buenas noches, señor presidente.
It's a source of pride for President Nayib Bukele
that almost two years ago declared a war on crime.
A detention center the size of seven football stadiums
with capacity to hold 40,000 prisoners,
the largest of its kind in Latin America.
Known as the Center for Terrorism Confinement,
it opened its doors in 2023
after the government declared a state of emergency.
The move limiting civil rights...
Look at the tattoos, dude.
Look at that.
...tens of thousands of gang members.
Wow.
The director says the detainees have to sleep on hard surfaces
to avoid giving them mattresses
that could be used to hide objects.
Their diet consists of simple meals that repeat every day.
Beans, rice, one hard egg in the morning.
Wow.
Yeah.
This guy just put the hammer down.
That was, you know, with Duncan Trusholm,
when we were in L.A.,
when the George Floyd riots hit,
one of the first things he says,
dude, we're going to have
a right-wing authoritarian president now.
That's going to be the next person.
Like, the next...
Like, when this all collapses,
the only response to that
is people go hard right.
They go hard right.
Oh, my God.
That's nuts.
That's nuts.
I think it's MS-13 is one of the big gangs.
I can't remember what the other one's called.
These are stuff like,
if you wanted to...
Oh, my God.
...stop this at its tracks,
you kind of...
You're not going to cure those guys.
There's like two bathrooms in each stall,
or each cell also.
And how many people in each cell?
A lot of people, two baths, two stalls.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
If you've got to go, you've got to go.
But I guess...
If you want to really clean it up,
it's not going to be pretty.
If you want to really clean up
a very dangerous, gang-infested place,
it's not going to be pretty.
You saw Batman.
That's what he did, right?
Yeah.
Recodes, like, 100, 500 people.