What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal …
1 day ago · 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 …
What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump
14 hours ago · Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 72 …
What to know about the El Salvadorian mega-prison Trump has
1 day ago · Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 45 miles east of …
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 …
El Salvador’s Prisons Are Notorious. Will They House Trump’s …
20 hours ago · 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 ...
1 day ago · 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 …
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 …
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 …
El Salvador offers to take in US criminals and migrants - BBC
1 day ago · El Salvador has offered to lock up US criminals in its huge maximum-security prison complex El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US, including those …