Crude diet that inmates at the 'world's worst prison' eat every single day as Trump looks to send US prisoners there

The Trump administration is considering sending US citizens abroad to be incarcerated in the 'world's worst prison'.

In 2023, El Salvador opened the mega-prison CECOT (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism), which has the space for up to 40,000 inmates and has attracted significant criticism from human rights groups over conditions on the inside.

Yesterday (4 February), the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, left El Salvador saying their president 'has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world' regarding American prisoners.

"We can send them, and he will put them in his jails," Rubio said.

"And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States, even though they’re US citizens or legal residents."

El Salvador's government have offered to incarcerate US citizens abroad, which is not legal. (Alex Peña/Getty Images)

El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, confirmed that he'd 'offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system'.

He said they could take 'convicted criminals' for a fee, though a US official later said there were currently no plans to send US citizens to El Salvador despite the offer being made.

Legally speaking, the US government can't deport its own citizens, and the current idea would be for foreign nationals arrested in the US to be sent to the 'world's worst prison'.

Conditions in CECOT have been described as 'inhumane', and the prison director Belarmino García told CNN that prisoners didn't get much to eat either.

He said: "Here, what they get for breakfast is beans, cheese or a mix of rice and beans, maybe plantain and a cup of coffee or atole."

Prisoners in CECOT don't get much food, which is by design. (MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images)

"For lunch, it’s rice, pasta, and a beverage. Dinner is the same as breakfast. Meat doesn’t exist here, chicken doesn’t exist here, special menus don’t exist for anyone."

Prisoners would also be subject to a series of rules, where they would be monitored around the clock by armed guards and could never truly be in the darkness.

The prison's artificial lights are never switched off and there is little ventilation for a facility where the indoor temperature can reach 35C.

Inmates in the prison sleep on four-storey bunk beds without mattresses or sheets, meaning they only have hard metal to lie down on.

It has been described as a 'concrete and steel pit' by former member of the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture, Miguel Sarre, who claimed that for some inmates it was being used 'to dispose of people without formally applying the death penalty' as they could be kept there without being released.