1 day ago · What is the CECOT? Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 45 miles east of the capital.

The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and was opened by the Salvadoran government in January 2023.

18 hours ago · 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, he ...

5 days ago · CECOT is home to around 15,000 inmates, and it can hold up to 40,000. The high-security prison is a key part of President Nayib Bukele's program to combat serious gang crime in El Salvador.

22 hours ago · Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison. El Salvador’s mega-prison that can reportedly hold up to 40,000 inmates was built after President Bukele’s order as he cracked down on gang violence in 2022. CECOT opened a year later in the town …

1 day ago · The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a 57-acre (23-hectare) "mega-prison", is located 70 km (43.5 miles) east of the capital, San Salvador, in a rural region of the Tecoluca district.

1 day ago · Inmates in a cell at the Terrorism Confinement Center, a prison complex in Tecoluca, El Salvador, that has become a symbol of President Nayib Bukele’s administration. ... known as CECOT, a ...

Nov 6, 2024 · A gangster who killed dozens of people tells CNN he’s doing “rough time” in a notorious El Salvador prison.

Feb 15, 2024 · We are in Cecot (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism), a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to imprison "high-ranking" members of the country's main...

Aug 26, 2024 · For more than two years, the 26-year-old tractor driver has been in prison in El Salvador, accused of “gang association”, even though the country’s legal system has twice ordered his ...