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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) A body screening device used to register inmates is displayed during a media tour of the ...

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 ...