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 ...

I entered inside CECOT the mega prison full of gangs such MS-13 and Barrio 18, thanks to this prison the country of El Salvador is the safest country in the western hemisphere. Robot Umpires Have ...

Before CECOT, gangs largely controlled the prisons. Some facilities were called crime universities and command centers for rackets. When CECOT opened, Bukele, who cut his teeth at his family’s ...

The sprawling CECOT, on the edge of a jungle about 75 kilometers (47 miles) southeast of the capital San Salvador, is the centerpiece of Bukele's war on street gangs. Some 15,000 members of the MS ...

The American government has not yet said whether it plans to go ahead with sending U.S. prisoners to El Salvador, but Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who Trump has appointed to run the Department of ...

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 ...

Built to house El Salvador's most dangerous gangsters, conditions at the maximum-security "Terrorism Confinement Center" (CECOT) are slammed by rights groups as inhumane.