El Salvador já possui a maior taxa de população carcerária do mundo, e o governo dos EUA pretende aumentar ainda mais esse número.
- Associate Professor of Political Science, Emerson College
El Salvador has the highest prison population rate in the world. The US administration intends to increase the number of people behind bars there.
Mass arrests and the suspension of constitutional rights have been a feature of President Nayib Bukele’s tenure. A fresh mandate from voters will likely entrench his hardline approach.
With the expansion of Second Chance Pell grants, more colleges and universities will soon offer degree programs to students in prison.
Indigenous language instructors struggle to keep their languages from becoming lost.
The author of a book collecting the experiences of college professors who teach in prisons explains how they are changed by the experience.
El Salvador ‘is inching back toward its authoritarian past’ after President Nayib Bukele fired five supreme court justices and the attorney general – essentially the only checks on his power.
A new Human Rights Watch report finds many Salvadoran deportees are killed once home, often by the gangs they fled. Rampant impunity means El Salvador can’t protect vulnerable people from violence.
A scholar who has taught in prison weighs in on ‘College Behind Bars,’ which airs Nov. 25 and 26 on PBS. The documentary prompts viewers to consider the importance of higher education in prison.
Trump officials plan to send asylum seekers from the US to El Salvador while their claims are processed. That would expose these vulnerable people to grave dangers, says a political violence expert.
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