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 and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there ...

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

Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador ... CECOT is made up of eight sprawling pavilions. Its cells hold 65 to 70 prisoners each. They do not receive visits.

The prison has allowed El Salvador to crack down on gang violence and murders, but human rights violations have been flagged at the jail. AP The CECOT prison lies 47 miles southeast of the capital ...

Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador ... UK prison population – the CECOT is made up of eight sprawling pavilions. Its cells hold 65 to 70 prisoners each. None receive visits.

SAN SALVADOR ... a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has offered to incarcerate criminals deported from the U.S. in the Central American country’s CECOT mega-prison.