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

President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and ...

Under an unprecedented deal reached this week, El Salvador has agreed to accept deportees from the US of any nationality, ...

El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...

Bukele ordered construction of ‘Latin America’s biggest prison’ as he launched his purge against El Salvador’s gangs – including the dreaded MS-13 and Barrio 18 – in early 2022.

Trump this week agreed an "unprecedented, extraordinary migratory agreement" with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele to ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there SAN SALVADOR ...

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 ...

His prisons have ... to crime looked like? El Salvador was once known as the hemisphere’s murder capital — with one of the highest homicide rates anywhere in the world. But in 2022, Mr ...

El Salvador has offered to incarcerate American convicts and illegal migrants of any nationality deported from the United ...

Data from the World Prison Brief (WPB), opens new tab says El Salvador has per capita the ... is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained migrants and imprisoned ...