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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 from July 2022 to January 2023 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador. CECOT was opened by the Salvadoran government in ...
2024. Media gallery. v. t. e. The Salvadoran gang crackdown, referred to in El Salvador as the régimen de excepción ( Spanish for state of exception) [4] and the guerra contra las pandillas (Spanish for war against gangs ), [5] began in March 2022 in response to a crime spike between 25 and 27 March 2022, when 87 people were killed in El ...
April 3, 2024 at 6:52 PM. SAN SALVADOR (AP) — At least 241 people have died in El Salvador prisons since the start of President Nayib Bukele's “war on gangs” two years ago, according to the ...
History of violence in El Salvador. The Salvadoran Civil War, which lasted from 1979 to 1992, took the lives of approximately 80 000 soldiers and civilians in El Salvador. . Throughout the war, nearly half of the country's population fled from violence and poverty, and children were recruited as soldiers by both the military-run government and the guerrilla group Farabundo Martí National ...
Suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a new 'mega prison' amid criticism over human rights concerns. Around 2,000 people were transferred to a 40,000-capacity jail, however ...
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 ...
The large scale arrests increased El Salvador's prison population from 37,190 in 2020 to over 105,000 as of December 2023. With 1.7 percent of the country's population incarcerated, El Salvador has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
The Ciudad Barrios prison is a prison in Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel, El Salvador. Between September 2004 and mid-2015, it exclusively housed members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang. During this time, El Salvador had a policy of segregating gang members in its prisons; this policy has been reversed.