CECOT is in the rural area of Tecoluca, El Salvador, about 45 miles southeast of the nation’s capital of San Salvador. It took a year to build and and cost about $115 million. The facility began ...

The Trump administration didn't give these men due process before sending them to a notorious Salvadoran prison, and it doesn't look like they'll get it anytime soon.

US lawmakers were greeted with jeers, screams, and aggressive hand gestures from inmates in El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) mega-prison during a chaotic visit las… ...

Purported MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no longer being housed in the Central American country’s notorious CECOT megaprison, Sen. Chris Van Hollen told reporters Friday.

El Salvador’s prison is real and horrible. It’s all a performance, too. Plus: AI vs. education (and oil). The filibuster. Maternal health.