Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...

Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US ...

YouTuber Ruhi Çenet was left stunned by the solitary confinement cell inside El Salvador's notorious maximum security prison, CECOT.

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they'd struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship ...

Built to house El Salvador's most dangerous gangsters, conditions at the maximum-security "Terrorism Confinement Center" ...

President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a ...

Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele said his administration is willing to take in "only convicted criminals" in exchange for a ...

Explainer - What Is El Salvador's Mega-Prison That Could Take ... deported from the U.S. in the Central American country's CECOT mega-prison. The offer, which Rubio later described as "very ...

After meeting Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador's president has offered to house U.S. deportees and even American ...

The mega-prison is capable ... have also suggested El Salvador and the US would be violating a number of international laws by holding citizens from other countries at CECOT.

What is the CECOT? Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 45 miles east of ...