World’s most dangerous jail
The world’s most dangerous gel is the CECOT gel of Al Salvador, which is built on 23 hectares and 70 km east of the capital San Salvador is in isolated place in an rural area. In February 2023, Al Salvador opened Latin America’s largest prison, which has a capacity to keep 40,000 prisoners and the gel was named- Center for Tarrism Confinement ie Cicott. This gel is also called the hell of the earth, because once he went to this high security target prison, it can never come out.
40 thousand prisoners can live
Talking about the number of prisoners in this jail, the human rights organization Christosal said that in March 2024, 1,10,000 prisoners in Al Salvador were behind bars. However, no one can know how prisoners live within this prison, what happens to them. In this prison, the prisoners are kept together, their heads are shaved and they only wear shorts. No one can meet the prisoner in jail, nor can the prisoners do any activity for any kind of entertainment.
What does jail look like
The central American country is counted among the most violent countries in the world. In the nineties, the incidents of crime murder in this country and gang culture increased so much that the government here was also helpless. The rate of murders and looting was the highest on the roads and an average of 18 people were killed every day.
In 2019, the government of this country was formed in this country and he promised to end the crime even before becoming President. In the year 2022, Bukle imposed emergency across the country. The police and the army were allowed to arrest people without any warrant and 70 to 80 thousand people were arrested in no time. But now the problem faced the government as to where to keep so many prisoners. Prisoners were already full of prisoners in jails. Then Bukle decided to create a new jail and became the Center for Terrorism Confinement.
Need this gel
CNN’s report states that this jail has the ability to keep around 40000 prisoners but the inner situation is worse than bad. There are no beds for prisoners in the jail, but the bunk beds of the metal. No matter how cold they are, they have gold without blankets and the prisoners have a round clock in the cell. In this jail, dreaded terrorists and big criminals are kept, no work is done from them. The prisoners are taken out of the cell for only half an hour, where they read the Bible.
How is dangerous jail
According to CNN report, Salvador’s leader Baukele proposed to the US that they could use their jails for their prisoners. Her idea was liked by Trump and under an agreement the US government will give $ 6 million to Salvador.
This jail has also come into many disputes. According to the BBC report, Jaira Nawas, former Inspector General of Police of Al Salvador and the legal head of Christosal, says, “Cicot conditions can be inhuman and abusive because there is no access to that jail. He said that a lawyer, no Lokpal, even the media can go inside to confirm the situations.”
World’s most dangerous jail
At the same time, according to a report by NGO Christosal, who worked on the human rights issue in Al Salvador, in the first year of this campaign, dozens of prisoners died due to lack of torture, beating or health care in other jails across the country. The government has not publicly responded to the report.
These are two sets of lattice enclosures that are fully electrified. Apart from this, two concrete walls are around the gel. The circumference of the outer wall is 2.1 km (1.3 mi) while there are 19 tower to monitor. It has eight sections, each there are 32 cells. The complex of Jail is spread over around 23 hectares (57 acres).
There is very little information about how the prisoners are given food inside the jail or how they are taken care of. No information or photos of facilities like kitchen, dining room, shop or hospital have been shared.
Why is this jail special
There is a lot of heat and moisture throughout the year, but these cells have neither window, nor fans and air conditioner. In every closet, there are two wash basins to wash the clothes of prisoners. There are also two toilets in the open. The prison cells are diamond -shaped jalis, security guards from the jalis monitor the prisoners. Jalis are made of solid metal so that no cine is swinging from it. The prisoners have a metal plate instead of sleeping, nothing is found to lay on it.
In May of 2025, a comment from the President Bukle came, in which he tweeted, “Tell all the NGOs working on human rights that we are going to clean up these bloody killers and his colleagues, we will put them in jail and they will never come out.”
“This is a pit of gel concrete and steel where an attempt is made to settle people without punishing the death,” Miguel Sarre told the BBC, former member of the United Nations torture Prevention Subcommittee. Officials say the sequet has a state -of -the -art security system – apart from a huge monitoring network to enter, there is also a state -of -the -art weapons work.
