Conditions inside a huge new mega-prison designed to house 40,000 alleged gang members in El Salvador will be particularly severe, according to accounts from
By Sara Acosta San Salvador, Feb 3 (EFE).- The Salvadoran government is poised to open the largest prison in the Western Hemisphere, designed to hold as many as 40,000 gang members incommunicado. Known officially as the Center for Terrorism Confinement, the facility was built on a parcel of 165.2 hectares (407,901 acres) in a rural …
The Terrorism Confinement Center, which will be guarded by over 800 soldiers and police officers, more than doubles El Salvador s incarceration capacity.
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday defended a newly-unveiled mega-prison built to house 40,000 alleged gangsters rounded up in his campaign against violent crime.