Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

The prison has allowed El Salvador to crack down on gang violence and murders, but human rights violations have been flagged at the jail. AP The CECOT prison lies 47 miles southeast of the capital ...

CECOT has drawn praise from hardline law-and-order politicians and despair from human rights organisations. Bukele ordered construction of ‘Latin America’s biggest prison’ as he launched his ...

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

In February 2023, Salvadoran authorities launched what they claim to be "Latin America's biggest prison." The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a 57-acre (23-hectare) "mega-prison", is located ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...

El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US, including those with US citizenship, and house them in its ...

In February 2023, Salvadoran authorities launched what they claim to be "Latin America's biggest prison." The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a 57-acre (23-hectare) "mega-prison", is located ...

Is there space? There is now.” Even before his announcement with Rubio, Bukele had planned to put more people in prison. What is the CECOT? Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his ...

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. They are packed into cells without enough ...