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The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as 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.
As of 2019, Illinois has the highest rate with 89% of inmates in local jails unconvicted. [ 275 ] Bondsmen have lobbied to cut back local pretrial programs from Texas to California, pushed for legislation in four states limiting pretrial's resources, and lobbied Congress so that they won't have to pay the bond if the defendant commits a new crime.
Spain has a total of 92 prisons, also called penitentiary centers or penitentiary establishments. [1] They report to the General Secretariat for Penitentiary Institutions, a department of the Ministry of the Interior, with the exception of those located in the regions of Catalonia and the Basque Country, due to the delegation of powers from the Spanish government in 1984 [2] and 2021, [3 ...
In 1984 the prison became famous after an inmates' riot and the escape of the well-known criminal Juan José Moreno Cuenca . [7] The penitentiary center closed permanently on 8 June 2017, and is currently used as a center of memory, open to the public for guided or unguided visits.
The city's jail with 3,000 inmates was "literally torched" and the jailbreak resulted in fatalities. [52] More than 4,000 prisoners escaped from Muzenze prison. [53] It was reported that hundreds of female inmates were raped and burned alive during the mass jailbreak from Goma's prison. [54] Rebel fighters reached the center of Goma that morning.
ESMA, a well-known clandestine detention center. Memorial at the former detention center of Quinta de Mendez []. The clandestine detention, torture and extermination centers, also called (in Spanish: centros clandestinos de detención, tortura y exterminio, CCDTyE —or CCDyE or CCD—, by their acronym), were secret facilities (ie, black sites) used by the Armed, Security and Police Forces of ...
Inmates working for state-owned businesses earned between US$0.33 and US$1.41 per hour in 2017 – about twice the amount paid to inmates who work regular prison jobs. [ 10 ] With a few exceptions, regular prison jobs (cleaning, groundskeeping, kitchen and clerical work) remain unpaid in the U.S. states of Florida , South Carolina , Georgia ...
In 2009, the prison population totaled 44,800 inmates (0.15% of the national population), [3] though the nation's prisons were built for a capacity of 22,540. [4] 2,794 of the inmates were women. Only 17,297 of the inmates have been sentenced in court, while many of the rest are held in pretrial detention at police stations and judiciary buildings.