Issue Mega-prisons and detention expansion create an invisible male humanitarian crisis

Summary

The Men's Wellbeing Initiative warns that the health crisis linked to incarceration is being deepened by very large prisons and expanding detention. It names El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison and the record growth of immigration detention in the US, where most detainees are men. The Initiative describes such systems as a parallel crisis that often escapes monitoring. The Initiative associates these facilities with systemic medical neglect and documented abuse. Because the people held are overwhelmingly male, the harm forms a humanitarian problem concentrated among men that mainstream health frameworks rarely track. The issue builds on the Initiative's argument that prisons amplify disease and that release brings acute mortality risk.