The news is reporting that shortly before his firebombing of the Pennsylvania Governor's mansion, Cody Balmer reached out to a mental health facility.
Apparently, Balmer's condition had deteriorated to the point where he was "chewing on batteries."
I'm reminded of this scraggly dude I'd occasionally encounter downtown. He'd claim I was stalking him. He'd threaten me and would scream at the top of his lungs... "COPPER TOP!" Which I'm assuming was a cloaked Duracell reference.
Some information about the CECOT prison in El Salvador. Feel free to copy and paste.
Okay, let’s get into Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the prison in El Salvador where the Trump admin is sending men that they believe are “in gangs”, with no due process.
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I’d like to start by saying, we found out yesterday that of the 238 men that Trump has sent to CECOT, 179 of the men have NO criminal record, here or abroad. Please let that register before you continue reading. No. Criminal. Record. Whatsoever. 75% have clearer backgrounds than a lot of the people you know. The names of possibly innocent men are towards the bottom of this post.
Quick edit to acknowledge some comments: + The photos posted are not AI. Run them through AI checkers or check the resource list. I got them all from reliable resources linked below.
+ The people in the images are likely a mixture of gang members and innocent, we don’t know. As the post states, due process doesn’t exist. The prisoners America sent are not pictured. These photos were taken some time between 2023 and now.
+ The reason they are organized in that way is to show the “power and control” they have over their prisoners. They are not normally allowed out of their cells, this was for the photo, I assume.
+ In the United States, you are innocent until proven guilty. They have already made severe mistakes and innocent men ARE in that prison. The photos are to show where they are and why it’s important that we pressure our representatives to get these men back.
+ Nobody is arguing about whether or not actual gang members should be in prison. I do believe this is a human rights violation as a whole (because it is), but you can disagree. I’m more concerned about innocent Venezuelans and American citizens being caught up in this nightmare.
I’m going to try to break this down in easy to understand sections. Please forgive me if I’m repetitive.
About CECOT
+ Designed and completed in 2023 in response to overcrowding in other El Salvador prisons.
+ Built to house up to 40,000 inmates.
+ For the “worst of the worst” gang members.
+ Its aim is to be a PERMANENT solution, no rehabilitation, no return to society. The justice minister bluntly stated that prisoners at CECOT will “never return to their communities.”
+ 8 pavilions with 256 cells.
+ Cells house 80 - 100 men, sometimes more. 100 square meters in size.
+ 19 guard towers, multiple layers of fencing, 24/7 surveillance.
+ CECOT officials refuse to disclose actual population.
DAILY REGIMEN
+ Total lockdown. Prisoners are confined shoulder to shoulder in their cells 23.5 hours a day.
+ No outdoor time whatsoever.
+ Fluorescent lights remain on 24 hours a day. They have no sense of time and no sleep cycle.
+ They receive 30 minutes a day of tightly controlled corridor exercise.
+ No jobs, no classes, no books, no programs of any kind. Nothing.
+ CCTV watches prisoners 24 hours a day like “silent Gods.”
COMMUNICATION AND ISOLATION
+ No visits from family or lawyers.
+ No letters or phone calls.
+ All cell signal is blocked for a 1.5 mile radius.
+ Mass virtual trials via video link with up to 900 prisoners at a time.
+ Most inmates have never been formally charged or sentenced.
DISCIPLINE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTROL
+ Prisoners arrive barefoot and shackled with their heads bowed.
+ Forced to kneel in tight rows with their heads shaved upon arrival.
+ If they are to be punished, they are put into an even smaller cell that is completely dark.
+ Swift violence for perceived “disobedience” or breaking of any rule.
+ No sunlight, ever. No clocks. No time markers.
+ Inmates experience “profound psychological deterioration.”
+ Juveniles, around the age of 16, are in cells with hardened gang members.
+ Inmates are required to be “alert and obedient” at all times during the day.
+ Most sit idly. They are often required to remain silent. The rest of the time they remain mostly silent out of fear.
+ Some inmates have reportedly lost their voices from prolonged silence and stress.
+ Journalists who have been allowed in reported an atmosphere of “unnatural, tense silence.”
+ The guards are armed and wearing balaclavas to increase fear.
LIVING CONDITIONS
Sleep
+ Each cell is designed for 80 people, but often it far surpasses 100.
+ Inmates sleep on concrete floors without mattresses or on iron bunk tiers where they must lay across the metal slats.
+ Cells are so crammed full they sleep standing up or take turns laying down.
+ No pillows or blankets.
Food
+ Meals are minimal, rice and beans. Sometimes a tortilla. Sometimes an egg.
+ No utensils, prisoners eat with their hands.
+ Water is extremely limited. They share a jug within their cells.
+ Malnutrition is common and has been contributed to multiple deaths.
Hygiene
+ Each cell has 2 toilets and 2 sinks for 80+ men.
+ No privacy, ever. Constant filth and foul smells.
+ Bathing and “laundry” is done by buckets inside the cell.
+ Diseases are rampant. TB, scabies, fungal infections, stomach illnesses.
+ NO outside medical care is allowed, ever.
+ Over 350 inmates have died and most were due to medical conditions or abuse from guards.
+ If someone falls gravely ill, they are treated (if at all) in an on-site infirmary. “No prisoner ever leaves the premises alive” for medical care outside, a CECOT official told journalists, a chilling acknowledgment that even medical transfers are off the table.
ABUSE AND VIOLENCE
+ Much of the abuse is only recorded from President Bukeles former facility, the secrecy and lack of oversight at CECOT makes all reporting difficult. Nobody comes out, and dead bodies are viewed through photos. Human rights inspectors are denied access.
+ Beating by guards are common, especially upon first arrival. One man temporarily detained said he watched guards beat all new arrivals for an hour straight. When he tried to tell the guards he was wrongfully detained, they broke his ribs and threw him in a “dark hole” with 320 other men who also beat him.
+ Reported use of water torture and extended kneeling.
+ “Simulated drowning” has been repeatedly reported.
+ Guards often choose to humiliate. At the former CECOT facility, guards would strip inmates naked, push their faces into ice water until they nearly drowned while calling them “dogs” and “scum.”
+ Solitary confinement is used as punishment.
+ In the 350+ deaths since 2022, there were signs of asphyxiation, fractures and blunt trauma seen in photos.
+ Bodies are buried in mass graves, with no family notification.
+ Rival gangs are mixed together as punishment.
+ Government claims gang hierarchy is broken, reports suggest otherwise.
+ One of the few people ever released from CECOT said they often had to sleep and live next to the corpses of their cell mates until the guards got around to removing them.
+ Another man said they had to kneel for hours and if someone collapsed from exhaustion, they would “drag them out like an animal.” He said many of the men there were “not even gang members.”
LEGAL
+ Held without trial.
+ Virtually NO releases
+ Officials state openly they will never leave.
+ Many are serving decade long sentences without a trial.
+ The United States has sent 238 perceived Venezuelan gang members, 179 with no criminal records in the U.S. or abroad, under a $6,000,000 a year deal.
+ Humans rights refer to it as a “transnational penal colony” and a U.S. judge has referred to it as “wholly lawless.”
+ President Bukele has acknowledged that thousands of men in El Salvador prisons were “actually innocent”. Many of those men were released from those prisons, but prisoners in CECOT go through a one way door.
TESTIMONIES FROM INSIDE
+ CNN and CBS report that inmates sleep on concrete or bare steel.
+ Gang members claim it “breaks them emotionally.”
+ Inmates describe it as a place of “torture and death.”
+ Witnesses report having to sleep next to dead cell mates.
+ Guards claim “brutality is necessary.”
+ Police whistleblowers have admitted innocent men have been detained and abused.
+ One guard stated “they have nothing, so they have nothing to lose.”
HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL RESPONSE
+ Condemnation from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Inter-American Comission on Human Rights
+ CECOT violates Nelson Mandela Rules (UN Standard of Prisoner Treatment)
+ Cristosal reported 3,300 violations in the first year alone.
+ Human rights organizations refer to it as a “black hole for human rights”.
Some things I’d like to add:
+ Our country has sent innocent men here, we already know that. Some for tattoos that they misunderstood, some from “administrative errors”, some have been swept up simply for being neighbors, family or friends of the “perceived gang members.”
+ These men go into CECOT knowing they will never see or hear from their families again. Imagine being innocent?
+ Is this what you really wanted, MAGA? Do you think Jesus thinks this treatment of his children is ok? Or do you understand human rights exist for a reason? What does your gut tell you? If you know this is wrong, please help us. Please get involved. He didn’t tell you he was going to do this, you didn’t vote for this cruelty. The best time to do the right thing was the election, but the second best time is right now. Use your voice.
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NAMES OF MEN WHO MAY BE WRONGFULLY INCARCERATED AT CECOT
The names of the men we need to push to get back or at minimum, due process:
+ Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran national and Maryland resident, was mistakenly deported to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in March 2025. Despite a 2019 U.S. immigration judge’s order protecting him from removal due to credible fears of gang persecution, Abrego Garcia was apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on March 12, 2025, during a routine check-in. He was subsequently deported on March 15, with the Trump administration later acknowledging the action as an “administrative error.”
+ Andry José Hernández Romero: A 31-year-old gay Venezuelan makeup artist seeking asylum in the U.S., Hernández Romero was deported based on tattoos interpreted as gang symbols. His attorney clarified that these tattoos were religious and cultural symbols common in his hometown. Despite having no criminal record and a credible asylum claim, he was sent to CECOT, where concerns for his safety have been raised due to his sexual orientation and the prison’s notorious conditions.
+ Jose Franco Caraballo Tiapa: A barber who entered the U.S. seeking asylum, Caraballo was detained after an immigration officer noticed a tattoo of a clock on his arm, symbolizing the time of his daughter’s birth—a common design in Venezuela. Despite lacking a criminal record and having a pending asylum case, he was deported to CECOT under allegations of gang affiliation.
+ Jerce Reyes Barrios: A 35-year-old former professional soccer player from Venezuela, Barrios fled persecution and sought asylum in the U.S. He was detained and deported due to tattoos, including one resembling the Real Madrid logo, which authorities misinterpreted as gang-related. Despite providing evidence of his innocence and lack of criminal history, he was sent to CECOT.
+ E.M.: Identified only by initials for safety, E.M. fled Venezuela with his girlfriend to Colombia before being granted refugee status in the United States. Upon his arrival in Houston, he was detained and deported based on tattoos of a crown, soccer ball, and palm tree, common symbols in Venezuelan culture. His family was not informed of his deportation and later discovered his fate through media reports.
+ Francisco Javier García Casique: A 24-year-old Venezuelan hairdresser, García was deported and featured in a Salvadoran government video showcasing shackled prisoners. His family and advocates assert he has no gang affiliations and was wrongfully detained based on superficial indicators like tattoos.
+ Mervin Jose Yamarte Fernandez: a Venezuelan national, was deported despite having no criminal record. He was apprehended during a routine immigration check-in, with authorities citing alleged gang affiliations based on superficial indicators. He is currently detained in CECOT, with ongoing legal efforts seeking his return.
+ Jhon Chacin: a Venezuelan tattoo artist, sought asylum in the U.S. After his asylum application was denied, he agreed to voluntary deportation to Venezuela. However, his flight was rerouted, and he was instead sent to CECOT in El Salvador. Chacin remains imprisoned in CECOT, with his family and legal representatives advocating for his release.
+ Maiker Espinoza Escalona: Espinoza Escalona was detained by U.S. authorities and held at Guantanamo Bay before his deportation. Despite legal challenges and a court order prohibiting such deportations, he was sent to CECOT on March 17, 2025. He is currently incarcerated in CECOT, with limited information available about his well-being.
HOW TO HELP
+ Raise Public Awareness
• Speak out on social media
• Share the stories of men like Andry José Hernández Romero and Jose Caraballo Tiapa, whose cases highlight the injustice and lack of due process.
• Tag journalists, members of Congress, and human rights organizations when sharing posts to increase visibility.
+ Contact Your Representatives
If you’re in the U.S. (or another democratic country), contact your elected officials and ask them to:
•Demand accountability for wrongful deportations, especially of asylum seekers.
• Pressure the State Department to work with El Salvador for the release of innocent detainees.
• Support oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
You can use sample language like:
“I’m calling to express deep concern about the deportation of Venezuelan asylum seekers to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, where many are held without charges under abusive conditions. I urge you to call for their return and an investigation into this violation of due process.”
+ Support Legal and Human Rights Groups
Donate to or volunteer with organizations that are actively working on these issues:
• Human Rights Watch (HRW)
• Amnesty International
• ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
• RAICES
• Cristosal (El Salvador-based human rights org)
• International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)
These groups can:
• Help mount legal cases.
• Collect testimonies.
• Apply international pressure.
• Assist families of the detained.
+ Engage Media and Petition Platforms
• Start or sign petitions demanding that the U.S. and Salvadoran governments release innocent detainees from CECOT.
• Share firsthand accounts, where available, to humanize the crisis and move it out of the “policy” category and into the public conscience.
+ Pressure International Bodies
• Write to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights or the United Nations Human Rights Council.
• Demand they investigate abuses in CECOT and intervene diplomatically.
• Urge them to monitor deportations from the U.S. for violations of international refugee law.
+ Connect with Families and Survivors
• If you’re able, amplify the voices of affected families, especially those with loved ones trapped in CECOT.
• Many are already speaking out through platforms like CBS News, The Guardian, and El País, reaching out or supporting those efforts can magnify impact.
Long story short, Trump wants to prove he can use your tax dollars to outsource human torture. If you think this is morally unacceptable, I'd suggest refusing to file a federal tax return. Or at a bare minimum, using the 6-month extension in the interim until this situation is adequately resolved and the Orange Prolapse backs down.
Personally speaking, I have serious problems knowing that my tax dollars are being used to implement and expedite human torture abroad. Unless you frame the issue in this manner, the Trump administration's human torture program will continue unabated.
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