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The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador.It was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and opened by the Salvadoran government in January 2023.
El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation's solution to rampant gang violence, but human rights groups have slammed its alleged inhumane treatment of its ...
Bukele had offered to take in people deported from the US, regardless of their nationality, and house them in El Salvador's mega-jail. "We can send them and he will put them in his jails," Rubio said.
Face to face with inmates in El Salvador's mega-jail Thousands moved to El Salvador mega-prison Since he came into office in 2019, Bukele has made cracking down on crime his government's priority.
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 Center, or CECOT, he opened in 2023. In slickly produced videos, prisoners in boxer shorts are marched into prison yards and made to sit nearly atop each other.
The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a 57-acre (23-hectare) "mega-prison", is located 70 km (43.5 miles) east of the capital, San Salvador, in a rural region of the Tecoluca district.
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 Center, or CECOT, he opened in 2023. In slickly produced videos, prisoners in boxer shorts are marched into prison yards and made to sit nearly atop each other.
With tattoo-covered faces, and wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador’s state of exception are gradually filling the country’s new mega prison. Unveiled ...