Inside Bukele's Controversial Mega Prison

TECOLUCA, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 12: Members of the "Mara Salvatrucha" and "Barrio 18" gangs remain in a cell at CECOT (Spanish acronym for counter-terrorism confinement center) on October 12, 2023 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. On February of 2023 El Salvador inaugurated Latin America's largest prison as part of President Nayib Bukele's plan to fight gangs. Since then, the UN and NGOs have raised concern about the treatment of inmates, minors being held and suspects incarcerated as gang members without sufficient proof. Meanwhile, Bukele claims El Salvador's murder rate has fallen from the world's highest to the lowest in the Western Hemisphere. (Photo by Alex Peña/Getty Images)