The state of exception has now been renewed eighteen times. In the past year and a half, the government has jailed nearly seventy-three thousand people. At least a hundred and eighty-five prisoners have died in custody, according to the human-rights organization Cristosal.
It's impossible to say how many innocent Salvadorans have been arrested and detained, but there's little question that ordinary citizens have been swept up despite having done nothing wrong. Thousands of Salvadorans are languishing in prison, in many cases without knowing the supposed evidence against them.
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