El Salvador's notorious maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center is harsh, dangerous and cruel. And that's just what its ...

Over the weekend, the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, where they are being held ...

Donald Trump suggested that Americans charged with vandalizing Tesla property should serve 20 years in El Salvador's ...

Here’s what we know about the maximum-security prison ... a human rights scholar, said CECOT’s sheer scale is unprecedented in Latin America, with windowless cells in each of eight large ...

El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has gained attention after Donald Trump announced that alleged gang ...

The mega-prison in El Salvador, where visitation, recreation and education are not allowed, has became the latest tool in ...

Human rights advocates warn that the deportees legal rights were violated as they were transferred to the CECOT, a ...

CECOT is a 40,000-capacity jail located roughly 47 miles from San Salvador that was opened in 2023. The prison is made up of eight different pavilions and each of its cells can accommodate 67 to ...

Each cell can fit 65 to 70 prisoners. CECOT prisoners do not receive visits and are never allowed outdoors. The prison does not offer workshops or educational programs to prepare them to return to ...

El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump ... In a recent visit, CNN’s David Culver and his team described cells “built to hold 80 or so inmates” where men ...