Terrorism Confinement Center - Wikipedia
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.
Rare look inside prison that holds El Salvador’s most dangerous
Nov 14, 2024 · CNN’s David Culver and his team were the first major US news organization to capture the inside of Cecot — El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center. The facility houses some of El Salvador’s...
Exclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El Salvador - CNN
Nov 6, 2024 · Down the long sides of the hall are large built-in cages, each containing dozens of men staring out. This is Cecot — El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center — and the men are known...
Coming face to face with inmates in El Salvador's mega-jail - BBC
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 …
El Salvador: Stuck in Cecot, one of the world's toughest jails …
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 immediate...
Photos: Inside El Salvador’s new ‘mega prison’ for gang members
Feb 27, 2023 · Inmates accused of belonging to the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs arrive at a new "mega prison" called the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism in Tecoluca, 75km (45 miles) southeast of San...
Locked In Forever: Life Inside El Salvador's 40,000 Inmate Mega-Prison …
Jun 13, 2024 · The government of El Salvador has unveiled stark photographs from its new mega-prison, CECOT, designed to house top gang members indefinitely. The maximum-security facility in Tecoluca,...
Inside CECOT: El Salvador’s Controversial Prison
Oct 31, 2024 · The result of this government crackdown was the Centro de Cofinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), a maximum-security prison located in the town of Tecoluca, approximately 40 miles from the nation’s capital.
Inside the World’s Deadliest Prison | CECOT - El Salvador
Oct 21, 2024 · In this exclusive access video, I take you inside El Salvador's CECOT prison—the strictest and largest maximum-security facility in Latin America. Built by President Bukele in just 7 months,...
Inside El Salvador’s secretive mega-jail - BBC News - YouTube
A BBC investigation has used computer generated reconstructions to reveal what life is like inside Cecot, El Salvador’s so-called ‘mega-jail’. ...more. The reconstruction was made possible thanks...