El Salvador Prison

 El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. More than 70,000 people have been detained under the "state of exception", an emergency measure granting.  CECOT is home to around 15,000 inmates, and it can hold up to 40,000. The high-security prison is a key part of President Nayib Bukele's program to combat serious gang.  For more than two years, the 26-year-old tractor driver has been in prison in El Salvador, accused of “gang association”, even though the country’s legal system has twice.  CNN goes inside the El Salvador prison that houses gang members who once terrorized the country and are blamed as the “worst of the worst.”  El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. More than 70,000 people have been detained under the "state of exception", an emergency measure granting.

 The first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a huge new prison, the centrepiece of President Nayib Bukele's self-declared war on.  Marvin Medrano, ‘Sayco’, has “MS” for Mara Salvatrucha tattooed on his torso… forever. He’s serving 100 years in the mega-prison for gang members built two years ago in El.  El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. More than 70,000 people have been detained under the "state of exception", an emergency measure granting.