Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, known as CECOT, was designed to hold the most dangerous gang members in what used to be the country with the highest murder rate in the ...

CECOT (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) is a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to lock behind bars 'high ranking' members of the country's most violent gangs.

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 ...

It's a living hell with the lights on 24/7. What horrific event inspired the construction of CECOT? Why is the prison under fire for human rights violations? And what makes this prison so high ...

The overcrowded cells are packed with inmates serving sentences that range from 60 to over 1,000 years at the Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT), the country's newest prison facility.

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’.