Terrorism Confinement Center - Wikipedia
The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, stylized as CECOT) is a maximum security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 …
Terrorism Confinement Center - Encyclopedia Britannica
6 days ago · Officially named Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo in Spanish, it is more commonly referred to by its acronym, CECOT. The institution is one of the largest high-security prisons in the …
Terrorism Confinement Center CECOT: El Salvador's Mega-Prison
Oct 6, 2025 · El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) stands as the world’s largest prison, built to hold 40,000 inmates. It symbolizes President Nayib Bukele’s war against the country’s …
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
Nov 8, 2025 · In March and April, the Trump administration made the extraordinary decision to send 252 Venezuelan men to a notorious prison in El Salvador known as the Terrorism Confinement Center, …
CECOT: What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison | AP News
In 2023, he opened the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, where the immigrants were sent over the weekend even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring their deportations under an …
What we know about CECOT, the brutal mega-prison at the heart of …
Dec 24, 2025 · The Terrorism Confinement Centre, known by its Spanish acronym CECOT, is the Salvadoran mega-prison at the centre of a recent controversy at CBS's news flagship 60 Minutes.
Coming face to face with inmates in El Salvador's mega-jail
Feb 15, 2024 · 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 …
Exclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El Salvador
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 …
Inside El Salvador's mega-prison, where US criminals could be held
Feb 6, 2025 · El Salvador's president has offered to incarcerate criminals deported from the U.S. at The Terrorism Confinement Center, a mega-prison intentionally isolated from urban areas that can...
Inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison, which could soon ...
Feb 15, 2025 · 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 …