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 ...
Explainer - What is El Salvador's mega-prison that could take US criminals?
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ...
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Inside El Salvador’s brutal mega-prison home to the world’s most deadly gangs
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 ...
What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...
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Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison where president has offered to hold ‘dangerous’ US citizens and criminal migrants
Migrants deported from the US, and even “dangerous” American citizens convicted of heinous crimes could be headed to a notorious hellhole prison in El Salvador, where inmates live in ...
El Salvador offers to lock up US criminals in its mega-jail
El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US, including those with US citizenship, and house them in its ...
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What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
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 ...
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Explainer: What is El Salvador's mega-prison that could take US criminals?
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 ...