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'No Way Out': Grim Conditions In El Salvador's Mega-prison For Gangs

Inmates crowd a large cell at El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) mega-prison, where hundreds of members of the MS-13 and 18 Street gangs are being held (Credit: AFP)

Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without mattresses: this is life in Latin America's biggest prison.

Built to house El Salvador's most dangerous gangsters, conditions at the maximum-security "Terrorism Confinement Center" (CECOT) are slammed by rights groups as inhumane.

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