A human rights group has documented 153 deaths in El Salvador's prisons between March 2022 and April of this year. At least 28 people died violently due to torture, beatings, mechanical asphyxiation by strangulation and injuries, among other causes.
Human rights group Cristosal denounces that those imprisoned suffer systematic torture, electric shocks and arbitrary detentions. It indicates that several of the bodies "present evidence that the person was the victim of beatings and probably torture," with one of the most frequent causes of death.