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 …

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 …

The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. It was …

Nov 6, 2024 · CNN goes inside the El Salvador prison that houses gang members who once terrorized the country and are blamed as the “worst of the worst.”

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 …

Oct 12, 2023 · Unveiled earlier this year, the prison 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of the capital now holds some 12,000 accused or convicted gang members, barely a quarter of its …

Feb 27, 2023 · Inmates accused of belonging to the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs arrive at a new "mega prison" called the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism in Tecoluca, 75km (45 miles) …

Feb 4, 2025 · SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained …

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 …

Feb 4, 2025 · On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has offered to incarcerate criminals …