Built by the Salvadoran government to imprison 'high-ranking' members of the country's main gangs, the Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT) is a prison like no other.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who in March was wrongfully deported to El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison, was released from a jail near Nashville, Tennessee on Friday.
The deal involved Venezuela receiving them in exchange for 'political prisoners,' El Salvador's president said. Ten American nationals were also released by Venezuela.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia alleges he was tortured in El Salvador's notorious CECOT super-prison after being removed from country as part of Donald Trump's border crackdown.
In bleak photos shared proudly by the presidency of El Salvador, rows of stripped and shaved prisoners, distinguished only by their tattoos, line the corridors of CECOT.
CECOT (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) is a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to lock behind bars 'high ranking' members of the most violent gangs.