Editing El Salvador (section)

=== Incarceration ===

As of February 2025, El Salvador had the highest prisoner rate worldwide, with over 1,600 prisoners per 100,000 of the national population.<ref>{{cite web |title=Most prisoners per capita by country 2025 {{!}} Statista |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/ |website=Statista |language=en}}</ref> 

El Salvador’s [[Terrorism Confinement Center]] (CECOT) mega-prison is considered the largest prison in the Americas with a capacity of 40,000 inmates. The incarcerations have been part of president Bukele’s efforts to reduce high crime rates and gang violence.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rios |first1=Michael |title=What we know about El Salvador’s ‘mega prison’ where Trump is sending alleged Venezuelan gang members |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/17/americas/el-salvador-prison-trump-deportations-gangs-intl-latam/index.html |work=CNN |date=17 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref> In March 2025, the United States transferred more than 200 immigrants, alleging them to be members of a Venezuelan gang, to be imprisoned in El Salvador in violation of court orders.<ref>{{cite news |title=US deports over 200 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador despite court ban |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/16/venezuelan-immigrants-deported-to-el-salvador-despite-us-court-ban |work=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>