There's a fair bit of vitriol in here for the more "deserving" prisoners, and I kinda get it but it reminds me of a quote I'm going to have to paraphrase. "You don't judge a society by how it treats the best among them. You judge it by how it treats the least among them." Who we are isn't how we act in front of rich and/or powerful people. It's how we act when we are the ones with wealth and/or power. While I fully understand and support condemning atrocious acts, the vitriol and the support of misery says more about us on the outside than it does them on the inside.

And then there's all the people who don't even have good evidence to support their arrest.

Take the following point of view to understand what Bukele has done in the country.

The gang members in El Salvador are nothing close to the people affiliated with gangs in the US and elsewhere. These people are serial killers, there is no way to rehabilitate and reintroduce such individuals back into society.

It is like saying hey let's release El Chapo because his conditions in isolation are inhumane and antidemocratic or take any serial killer and rapist in the same context.

For the people that have been caught and claim to be innocent it is far from the truth. Some of these individuals were aiding these gang members in many ways maybe because of close ties to their families. Being of aid to these people makes you just as guilt, you are not innocent.