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Yeah, tbh, they're trying to say these are all life sentences. It got me thinking: if El Salvador believes the US will never ask for the prisoners back, what's their incentive not to just kill these people and take the whole check to the bank? I know this guy in particular was seeking refuge from El Salvadorian gangs in the US, so there's a special incentive for him to end up dead, but I really don't see why they wouldn't just kill all the US prisoners if they really believe that the US will never ask for them back AND wants them in jail for life AND aren't demanding some kind of tracking. There's literally no reason at all not to just kill em and keep cashing the checks. If anyone comes knocking just say "oh shit, I guess they got away" or "we must have transferred them and lost the paperwork, sorry"
About the only incentive is that they are used as what amounts to slave labor. Gang members are put away for life and do hard labor. People who did crime but not violent crime are put away for years and are given "skills" training for when they get out.
Even then that's kinda dubious. You don't want your dangerous folks out there actually doing kind of important stuff that either risks them escaping or sabotaging or fucking up. There's only so many useful jobs you can have maximum security prisoners doing, and they don't tend to be ones that create a lot of value. I imagine that much of it is digging ditches and filling them back up again.