U.S. Judge James E. Boasberg said deportees were “plainly deprived” of their right to contest their removals before being flown to a Salvadoran prison in March.

Packed with violence and fear, CECOT isn’t just a prison....it’s a symbol of El Salvador’s hardline crackdown.

This week’s Deadline: Legal Newsletter looks at the prospects for immigrants deported by the Trump administration to the CECOT prison.

The circuit court ruling is a victory for the Trump administration, for now, in the fight over due process protections for U.S. migrants deported to a Salvadorian prison.

Mothers and relatives of the Venezuelan detainees in CECOT have been communicating about their loved ones in a WhatsApp group.

The fact of Abrego Garcia‘s return does not mean that everything is above board with regards to the administration’s use of CECOT or Trump‘s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, under which ...

Deported Tren de Aragua gangbangers jeered and shouted and pressed against the bars of their cells in the first ever look inside the wing of El Salvador's hellhole CECOT prison where they are ...

El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison is a maximum-security facility built to hold the country’s worst criminals in eight buildings across a space equal to seven football stadiums.

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

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.

Ecuadorean Ministers John Reimberg (Interior) and Gian Carlo Loffredo (Defense ) toured El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) to pick up some ideas with which to build similar ...

Armed guards turned Sen. Chris Van Hollen away less than two miles from the notorious CECOT prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is wrongly being held.