Following a prisoner swap with the U.S., deportees returned to Venezuela after being kept in a notorious prison in El Salvador. National Immigrant Project Southeast Regional attorney Stephanie Alvarez-Jones,

For months, they say, they were beaten by prison guards, shot with pellets, deprived of adequate medical care and denied any due process inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement.

One man said one senior prison worker told him when he arrived at CECOT, “Welcome to hell. You will never get out of here. You will not see the light of day"