Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them, despite clear evidence of human-rights abuses in the country’s prison system and forceful warnings that the men would suffer cruel and unusual treatment . Now two human-rights organizations, Human Rights Watch and the Central America–based Cristosal, have found that all of those men were physically abused. Citing prisoner testimony, their report claims that the men were held in