Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...
The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.
El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation's solution to rampant gang violence, but ...
FILE - Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared cell during a press tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in Tecololuca, El Salvador, Oct. 12, 2023.
FILE - Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared cell during a press tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in Tecololuca, El Salvador, Oct. 12, 2023.
As part of President Nayib Bukele's ongoing crusade against gangs in El Salvador, the government opened the Counter-Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, which will soon mark its ...
President Nayib Bukele had proposed to take people deported from the US, regardless of nationality, and put them in prisons like the Terrorism Confinement Center ( CECOT). Speaking about the ...
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