The CECOT prison has been central to Bukele's aggressive crackdown on gang violence since he took office in 2019. The prison, designed to hold up to 40,000 inmates, many of whom are mass murderers ...

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.

CECOT is the largest prison in Central America and has been widely decried by human rights groups for the deadly human rights abuses that occur there. As I wrote in November, former Rep.

His secretary of state Marco Rubio described Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to incarcerate them at his notorious Terrorism Confinement Centre – or CECOT – as ‘very generous’.

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 ...

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.

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.