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Inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison
CBS News this week got a first-hand look at El Salvador's notorious Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, a prison that could soon house deportees from the U.S. Lilia Luciano went inside the prison and has more.
Inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison, which could soon house deportees from the U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated Americans in El Salvador's prisons.
CECOT: Inside the Mega-Prison El Salvador Has Offered Up for Trump's Use
Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities in a central hallway.
A look inside an El Salvador mega prison
El Salvador's president is offering to take in deportees and U.S. criminals at its prisons, including American citizens. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano got a rare first-hand look inside one of its mega prisons.
Explainer - What Is El Salvador's Mega-Prison That Could Take US Criminals?
President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and immense popularity on an extreme security policy to combat gang violence in El Salvador, incarcerating large quantities of alleged gang members and securing a massive drop in homicides.
Inside El Salvador’s brutal mega-prison home to the world’s most deadly gangs
Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US.
When El Salvador agreed to put migrants in "mega-prison," the U.S. paved the way for nuclear power
Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 people. He said the nominal cost for America would help make El Salvador's prison system sustainable.
The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America’s Worst Criminals
The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.
El Salvador to house minors convicted of organized crime in adult jails
El Salvador's Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized crime to be housed in the same prisons as adults, albeit in separate areas.
Behind El Salvador's prison system that may handle U.S. deported migrants
CBS News' Lilia Luciano got a rare look at El Salvador's prison system after President Nayib Bukele offered to house dangerous deported migrants from the U.S. This comes as President Trump continues his efforts to crackdown on illegal immigration.
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What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a ...
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El Salvador offers to hold ‘dangerous’ US citizens and criminal migrants from any country in their hellhole ‘mega-prison’
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the US ...