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La Esperanza (prison)
La Esperanza, also known as Mariona, is a prison in El Salvador. Located on the northern outskirts of the city of San Salvador San Salvador () is the Capital city, capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its San Salvador Department, eponymous department. It is the country's largest agglomeration, serving as the country's political, cultural, educational and fin ..., it was the largest prison in El Salvador before the opening of the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), with a population of 33,000 in 2023.''Cómo fue estar preso en El Salvador: “Se subían encima de él como que si era un resorte”'', Caterina Morbiato, Los Angeles Times, Jun. 16, 2024, https://www.latimes.com/espanol/california/articulo/2024-06-16/como-fue-estar-preso-en-el-salvador-se-subian-encima-de-el-como-que-si-era-un-resorte References {{notelist Prisons in El Salvador ...
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San Salvador
San Salvador () is the Capital city, capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its San Salvador Department, eponymous department. It is the country's largest agglomeration, serving as the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. The Municipalities of El Salvador, municipality of San Salvador has 525,990 inhabitants (2024). The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, which comprises the capital itself and 13 of its municipalities, has a population of 2,404,097. The urban area of San Salvador has a population of 1,600,000 inhabitants. The city is home to the ''Consejo de Ministros de El Salvador'' (Council of Ministries of El Salvador), the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, the Supreme Court of El Salvador, and other governmental institutions, as well as the official residence of the president of El Salvador. San Salvador is located in the Salvadoran highlands, surrounded by volcanoes and prone to earthquakes. The city is also home to the Roman Catholic ...
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El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a government census. Among the Mesoamerican nations that historically controlled the region are the Maya peoples, Maya, and then the Cuzcatlan, Cuzcatlecs. Archaeological monuments also suggest an early Olmec presence around the first millennium BC. In the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish conquest of El Salvador, Spanish Empire conquered the Central American territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. However, the Viceroyalty of New Spain had little to no influence in the daily affairs of the isthmus, which was colonized in 1524. In 1609, the area was declared the Captaincy General of Guatemala by the ...
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Maximum Security Prison
Maximum security prisons and supermax prisons are grades of high security level used by prison A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where Prisoner, people are Imprisonment, imprisoned under the authority of the State (polity), state ... systems in various countries, which pose a higher level of security to prevent prisoners from escaping and/or doing harm to other inmates or security guards. *For the United States, see Incarceration in the United States § Security levels *For Canada, see Correctional Service of Canada § Security classification of offenders *For other prison systems, see Prison § Security levels See also * Maximum Security (other) Prisons {{SIA ...
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Ministry Of Justice And Public Security (El Salvador)
The Ministry of Justice and Public Security of El Salvador (, abbreviated MJSP) is a government ministry of El Salvador. History The Ministry of Justice and Public Security was established on 5 December 2006 by the Salvadoran government. The ministry began its functions the following year. Structure The ministry is led by the Minister of Justice and Public Security. The Vice Minister of Justice and Vice Minister of Security serve under the Minister of Justice and Public Security. The National Civil Police (El Salvador), National Civil Police (PNC), the National Academy of Public Security (ANSP), and the General Directorate of Penal Centers (DGCP) are administered by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. List of ministers of justice and public security References External links Official website
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Terrorism Confinement Center
The Terrorism Confinement Center ( [], ) is a maximum security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amid a Salvadoran gang crackdown, large-scale gang crackdown in the country. The Salvadoran government opened the prison in late January 2023, and it began housing inmates the following month. , CECOT had a confirmed population of 14,532inmates; in November 2024, prison director Belarmino García estimated that CECOT held between 15,000 and 20,000 inmates. With a capacity for 40,000inmates, CECOT is the largest prison in Latin America and one of the largest in the world by prisoner capacity. In March 2025, the Salvadoran government accepted over 200deportees that the second Donald Trump administration alleged were Venezuelan and Salvadoran gang members and incarcerated them in CECOT. Among them was Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case received widespread media attention in the United States. CECOT is controversial, receiving praise for its detention ...
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