The article discusses a recent exchange between former President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele regarding building more detention facilities in El Salvador. Trump emphasized the harsh treatment of criminals, suggesting that those who commit serious offenses, such as violent crimes against the elderly, should face serious consequences. Human Rights Watch has criticized the conditions in existing facilities, highlighting issues such as mass trials and solitary confinement. Trump has offered financial assistance to enhance the capacity of these detention centers. The leaders discussed the plans during a livestream event.
"If they're criminals and if they hit people with baseball bats over the head that happen to be 90 years old and if, uh, if they rape 87-year-old women in Brooklyn, yeah, yeah, that includes them," he added.
"They're as bad as anybody that comes in. We have bad ones, too."
The reporter asked the question after Trump encouraged Bukele to build several more detention facilities and even offered to help pay for them, praising them as "great facilities, very strong facilities."
Conditions at the megaprison are notoriously brutal. Juanita Goebertus, the director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch, testified last month under penalty of perjury that people there are denied communication with their relatives and lawyers.
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