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Coming face to face with inmates in El Salvador's mega-jail
Watch: Rare video shows El Salvador inmates in their cells in mega-jail. ... On our tour of the prison, we are brought face to face with five prisoners selected to drive home this point.
Inside El Salvador's secretive mega-jail
A BBC investigation has used computer generated reconstructions to reveal what life is like inside Cecot, El Salvador's so-called 'mega-jail'. The reconstruc...
Rare video shows inmates in their cells in El Salvador's mega-jail
Suspected gang members moved to El Salvador mega-prison. 25 Feb 2023. Latin America & Caribbean. ... The concert in Brazil marked the end of the singing icon's 'Celebration' world tour.
Photos: A tour of Nayib Bukele's mega-prison
Photos: A tour of Nayib Bukele's mega-prison. Behind the bars of the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) are El Salvador's most dangerous inmates: hitmen who have committed dozens of murders and are serving sentences of 700 years. Every cell is full, and the authorities refuse to specify the number of people incarcerated at this facility.
Thousands of El Salvador gang members moved to new 'mega prison'
Prisoners have begun arriving at El Salvador's new Terrorism Confinement Centre, thought to be the largest megaprison in the Americas, in the latest step in ...
El Salvador is gradually filling its new mega prison with alleged gang
TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — With tattoo-covered faces, and wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador's state of exception are gradually filling the country's new mega prison. Unveiled earlier this year, the prison 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of the capital now holds some 12,000 accused or convicted ...
Alleged gang members arrive at new mega-prison in El Salvador
New photos out of El Salvador show 2,000 alleged gang members packed into the country's largest brand-new prison. NBC's Valerie Castro explains why the natio...
Rare look inside El Salvador's mega prison
Illinois man charged in fatal shooting of four people on Chicago train. Telemundo cameras captured an inside look at a controversial mega prison in El Salvador, which is the largest in Latin ...
Inside El Salvador's mega-prison: the jail giving inmates less space
Excluding corridors between cells, there remains less than 6 acres for the inmates, or just 0.6 sq metres per prisoner if the prison holds 40,000. Bunk beds provide some additional space but the ...
Photos: Inside El Salvador's new 'mega prison' for gang members
The first 2,000 inmates of a new prison built in El Salvador to accommodate more than 40,000 suspected gang members targeted in President Nayib Bukele's "war" on crime have arrived at the ...
El Salvador bets safety on incarceration; unveils new prison
An Air Force helicopter flies over the Terrorism Confinement Center during a media tour in Tecoluca, El Salvador, late Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. The "mega-prison" still under construction has a maximum capacity of 40,000 and is intended to imprison gang members, according to the government. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
Terrorism Confinement Center
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.. CECOT received its first 2,000 prisoners in February 2023 ...
Why El Salvador's president wants everyone to know about his new prison
By mid-2022, up to 2% of El Salvador's population 18 and older, or roughly 100,000 people, was in prison, according to an Amnesty international assessment based on local media reports.
Inside the controversial prison system locals say has changed El Salvador
El Salvador was once labeled the deadliest country in the world, but government data shows murders have dropped significantly. The President boasts they have the highest incarceration in the world ...
Thousands of tattooed inmates pictured in El Salvador mega-prison
The first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a huge new prison, the centrepiece of President Nayib Bukele's self-declared war on crime. Tens of thousands of ...
El Salvador's New Mega Prison Sparks Controversy
A new maximum-security prison in El Salvador, considered to be the largest in Latin America, was built under orders of President Nayib Bukele as part of his ...
El Salvador's President Bukele and his massive new prison ...
President Nayib Bukele promised to end gang violence. It may come at the expense of human and civil rights. Suspected gang members arrive at the new prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on February 25 ...
How El Salvador transferred 2,000 inmates to a 'mega prison'
How El Salvador transferred 2,000 inmates to a 'mega prison'. El Salvador's president is showing no signs of slowing his crackdown on gangs as he begins his second term in office. The government ...
Gang members packed into El Salvador prison cells
Gang members are seen inside a cell at Quezaltepeque jail during a media tour, in Quezaltepeque, El Salvador September 4. El Salvador opened up the gates of an overcrowded prison to talk up the ...
An inside look at El Salvador's new 'megaprison'
Ryan Flynn and Samara Abramson. Mar 2, 2023. El Salvador's government released footage of its new "megaprison," which can hold up to 40,000 inmates. An icon in the shape of a person's head and ...
El Salvador: Critics denounce their government as a dictatorship. But
For decades, life choices in El Salvador were either leave or die. People are returning after a crackdown on crime, but it's come at a cost. ... a massive prison complex with the capacity to ...
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Watch: Rare video shows El Salvador inmates in their cells in mega-jail. ... On our tour of the prison, we are brought face to face with five prisoners selected to drive home this point.
A BBC investigation has used computer generated reconstructions to reveal what life is like inside Cecot, El Salvador's so-called 'mega-jail'. The reconstruc...
Suspected gang members moved to El Salvador mega-prison. 25 Feb 2023. Latin America & Caribbean. ... The concert in Brazil marked the end of the singing icon's 'Celebration' world tour.
Photos: A tour of Nayib Bukele's mega-prison. Behind the bars of the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) are El Salvador's most dangerous inmates: hitmen who have committed dozens of murders and are serving sentences of 700 years. Every cell is full, and the authorities refuse to specify the number of people incarcerated at this facility.
Prisoners have begun arriving at El Salvador's new Terrorism Confinement Centre, thought to be the largest megaprison in the Americas, in the latest step in ...
TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — With tattoo-covered faces, and wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador's state of exception are gradually filling the country's new mega prison. Unveiled earlier this year, the prison 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of the capital now holds some 12,000 accused or convicted ...
New photos out of El Salvador show 2,000 alleged gang members packed into the country's largest brand-new prison. NBC's Valerie Castro explains why the natio...
Illinois man charged in fatal shooting of four people on Chicago train. Telemundo cameras captured an inside look at a controversial mega prison in El Salvador, which is the largest in Latin ...
Excluding corridors between cells, there remains less than 6 acres for the inmates, or just 0.6 sq metres per prisoner if the prison holds 40,000. Bunk beds provide some additional space but the ...
The first 2,000 inmates of a new prison built in El Salvador to accommodate more than 40,000 suspected gang members targeted in President Nayib Bukele's "war" on crime have arrived at the ...
An Air Force helicopter flies over the Terrorism Confinement Center during a media tour in Tecoluca, El Salvador, late Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. The "mega-prison" still under construction has a maximum capacity of 40,000 and is intended to imprison gang members, according to the government. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
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.. CECOT received its first 2,000 prisoners in February 2023 ...
By mid-2022, up to 2% of El Salvador's population 18 and older, or roughly 100,000 people, was in prison, according to an Amnesty international assessment based on local media reports.
El Salvador was once labeled the deadliest country in the world, but government data shows murders have dropped significantly. The President boasts they have the highest incarceration in the world ...
The first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a huge new prison, the centrepiece of President Nayib Bukele's self-declared war on crime. Tens of thousands of ...
A new maximum-security prison in El Salvador, considered to be the largest in Latin America, was built under orders of President Nayib Bukele as part of his ...
President Nayib Bukele promised to end gang violence. It may come at the expense of human and civil rights. Suspected gang members arrive at the new prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on February 25 ...
How El Salvador transferred 2,000 inmates to a 'mega prison'. El Salvador's president is showing no signs of slowing his crackdown on gangs as he begins his second term in office. The government ...
Gang members are seen inside a cell at Quezaltepeque jail during a media tour, in Quezaltepeque, El Salvador September 4. El Salvador opened up the gates of an overcrowded prison to talk up the ...
Ryan Flynn and Samara Abramson. Mar 2, 2023. El Salvador's government released footage of its new "megaprison," which can hold up to 40,000 inmates. An icon in the shape of a person's head and ...
For decades, life choices in El Salvador were either leave or die. People are returning after a crackdown on crime, but it's come at a cost. ... a massive prison complex with the capacity to ...