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The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

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A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial ...

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Regarded as the world’s largest correctional facility, the mega-prison was intended to hold up to 40,000 members of the street gangs that long held sway in this Massachusetts-size country of 6.3 ...