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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.
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.
The CECOT prison lies 47 miles southeast of the capital city, with gangbangers from MS-13 and rival Barrio 18 held inside its walls, according to the government. The prison boasts wide dining ...
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.
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.
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has confirmed that his country will take “dangerous” U.S. prison inmates ... mega-prison complex in Tecoluca, which was opened in 2024 and is the biggest ...
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has offered for illegal immigrants – of any nationality – facing deportation in the U.S. to be booked in his country's prison system in exchange for a fee.