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 ...
The CECOT prison has been central to Bukele's aggressive crackdown on gang violence since he took office in 2019. The prison, designed to hold up to 40,000 inmates, many of whom are mass murderers ...