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The Izalco prison, like many in El Salvador, is crowded with inmates sprawled over every inch of cell floor. The country’s 19 prisons were built to hold a total of 8,000 prisoners. Today, 24,000 are stuffed into them. In another Salvadoran prison, inmates often must string hammocks from the ceiling or bed down on the floor of a library that is now too full of prisoners to hold any books.