Inside the El Salvador prisons where a ‘lost generation’ has been abandoned by mass migration to the US
Carlos holds his bare feet, cut and bruised from the harsh concrete floor, as he sits in his cell in the Tonacatepeque juvenile detention centre, just outside El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador. The 16-year-old serving a seven-year sentence for murder in one of the world’s most dangerous cities speaks quietly and without making eye contact.