‘Like a jungle’: inside the eSwatini prison holding US deportees

Few places in the small African kingdom of eSwatini have a more feared reputation than the Matsapha Correctional Centre, a high-security sprawl of concrete and rust outside the capital, Mbabane.
“It’s like a jungle,” a former detainee told Agence France-Presse of the prison that is holding 14 men deported from the United States in the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants.
For decades, the prison has embodied the repressive policies of the southern African nation, routinely used to…