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Inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison, which could soon house deportees from the U.S.

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The Center for the Confinement of Terrorism , known as CECOT, was designed to hold the most dangerous gang members in El Salvador .

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador declared a state of exception in 2022 , which empowered police and the military to arrest people on suspicion of gang affiliation, without any evidence of committing crimes.

Today , El Salvador has the lowest homicide rate in the Western Hemisphere .

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