{"id":26997,"date":"2023-12-02T05:28:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T05:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cahootie.com\/?p=26997"},"modified":"2023-12-02T05:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T05:28:59","slug":"inside-terrifying-mega-jail-that-can-house-40000-inmates-in-concrete-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahootie.com\/world-news\/inside-terrifying-mega-jail-that-can-house-40000-inmates-in-concrete-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside terrifying \u2018mega jail\u2019 that can house 40,000 inmates in concrete cells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A terrifying prison built to be the “biggest in the Americas” is large enough to hold 40,000 people and is already nearly half full less than a year after it opened.<\/p>\n

The Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) opened in El Salvador in early 2023, and it welcomed its first 2,000 inmates in February.<\/p>\n

Nayib Bukele hailed the “single operation” at the time and welcomed the prisoners to their “new house” as they served terms on terror charges.<\/p>\n

According to the CECOT’s last count, issued in August this year, the prison housed 12,114 inmates in a 410-acre concrete structure.<\/p>\n

The brutal-looking centre’s outside mirrors its interior governance, with human rights groups having called out instances of torture, “ill-treatment”, and deaths behind bars.<\/p>\n

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CECOT was first opened nearly a year ago after President Bukele declared a “war” on crime in El Salvador.<\/p>\n

The institution was built in an isolated part of Tecoluca, in the country’s San Vicente department, away from urban centres or public institutions.<\/p>\n

Inmates are kept in cells under the supervision of armed, masked guards, with videos showing them being paraded through a white, concrete interior.<\/p>\n

Footage posted by President Bukele showed tattooed prisoners chained together as they walked barefoot through otherwise empty halls dressed only in a pair of knee-length white shorts.<\/p>\n

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