▶️ VIDEO: Inside El Salvador's mega-prison holding 12,000 alleged gangsters
The massive prison has a capacity for 40,000 inmates, but now holds 12,114 accused gang members.
Inmates remain in a cell at the Counter-Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT) mega-prison, where hundreds of members of the MS-13 and 18 Street gangs are being held. AFP photos
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's relentless war on gangs is steadily filling the cellblocks of a massive prison that may be Latin America's largest.
At the complex in Tecoluca, southeast
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