Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...
The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...
The U.S. cannot deport American citizens and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said from Costa Rica that "we have a Constitution ...
The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.
El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...
Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US ...
Bukele had offered to take in people deported from the US, regardless of their nationality, and house them in El Salvador's ...
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.
Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March ... Able to hold 40,000 inmates, the CECOT is made up of eight sprawling pavilions.