What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal …
Feb 4, 2025 · Even before the campaign against gangs, El Salvador’s prisons were notoriously violent and overcrowded but the crown jewel of Bukele’s fight is the Terrorism Confinement …
Terrorism Confinement Center - Wikipedia
The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in …
El Salvador’s Prisons Are Notorious. Will They House Trump’s …
Feb 5, 2025 · El Salvador’s gangs once used jails as operational hubs to issue orders, extort businesses on the outside and recruit new members — something also seen inside prisons …
Explainer: What is El Salvador's mega-prison that could take US ...
Feb 4, 2025 · Data from the World Prison Brief (WPB), opens new tab says El Salvador has per capita the highest prison population rate of anywhere in the world, with 1,659 inmates per …
Thousands of tattooed inmates pictured in El Salvador mega-prison - BBC
Feb 25, 2023 · The first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a huge new prison, the centrepiece of President Nayib Bukele's self-declared war on …
Coming face to face with inmates in El Salvador's mega-jail - BBC
Feb 15, 2024 · El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. More than 70,000 people have been detained under the "state of exception", an emergency measure granting …
El Salvador is gradually filling its new mega prison with alleged …
Oct 12, 2023 · TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — With tattoo-covered faces, and wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador’s state of exception are …
Why El Salvador’s president wants everyone to know about his new prison …
Mar 7, 2023 · By mid-2022, up to 2% of El Salvador’s population 18 and older, or roughly 100,000 people, was in prison, according to an Amnesty international assessment based on local …
Thousands of tattooed inmates pictured in El Salvador mega-prison
Feb 25, 2023 · The first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a huge new prison, the centrepiece of President Nayib Bukele's self-declared war on …
Stuck in one of the world's toughest jails - against judges' orders - BBC
Aug 26, 2024 · For more than two years, the 26-year-old tractor driver has been in prison in El Salvador, accused of “gang association”, even though the country’s legal system has twice …