By Alek Buttermann El Salvador's recently floated plans to enter international prison management could represent a Copernican ...

The Trump administration is considering a surprise proposal from the Central American nation to incarcerate American ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — 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 ...

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

The drugs came from Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, according to prosecutors. Guzman, 67, was sentenced in 2019 to life in prison for leading a multibillion-dollar ...

Known as CECOT, the largest prison in the country is on the edge of a jungle about 75 kilometers (47 miles) southeast of the capital San Salvador. Inmates only leave their cells if they have court ...

TECOLUCA (El Salvador), Jan 30 — Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without mattresses: this is life in Latin America’s ...

The largest prison in Latin America and emblem of the war against gangs in El Salvador celebrates two years since it was inaugurated under conditions that rights groups call inhumane. Along with Milei ...

Inmates crowd a large cell at El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) mega-prison, where hundreds of members of the MS-13 and 18 Street gangs are being held AFP Confined to their cells ...

Built to house El Salvador's most dangerous gangsters ... but rights groups slam abuses in prisons, saying inmates are forced to confess and refused contact with their families and lawyers.