"Welcome to hell. Welcome to the cemetery of living men. The only way you leave here is dead."

Arturo says the person speaking was the jail’s director, Belarmino García.

In their testimonies, they describe regular beatings, sometimes with sticks while handcuffed. One says he was sexually abused by guards.

The men say they slept on metal bunks with no sheets or mattresses and had to eat with their bare hands. They also had no access to lawyers or the outside world, and no clocks or watches to tell the time of day.