A visit to Salvador's new 'mega-prison' points to severe conditions
Montenegro has assailed the vast prison -- a 166-hectare (410-acre) facility known as the Terrorism Containment Center, or CECOT -- as "an embarrassment for the country."
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A government prison security officer stands guard inside the newly inaugurated prison, at a secluded rural area in a valley near Tecoluca, 74 km southeast of San Salvador, on February 2, 2023./AFP
By NewVision Reporter
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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 a visiting team of AFP journalists.
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