El Salvador · La Unión · LA UNION
Centro Penal de La Unión
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Centro Penal de La Unión is a correctional facility operated by the Dirección General de Centros Penales (DGCP) in the department of La Unión, El Salvador. Official capacity: 500 inmates. El Salvador's prison system has been under a State of Exception since March 2022, with restricted access for monitoring bodies.
Capacity
500
Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
La Unión
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Compared to other facilities in El Salvador
33 peersData completeness
48%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- DGCP — Dirección General de Centros Penales
- Wikipedia: List of prisons in El Salvador
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- DGCP — Centros Penales de El Salvador — Dirección General de Centros Penales (DGCP), El Salvador
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.