El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown ...

El Salvador once had one of the highest murder rates in the world, with prisons controlled by gangs from the inside. Under ...

In 2021, President Bukele initiated a sweeping crackdown on gangs and crime. In a matter of weeks, 87,000 people were ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a significant issue in the Trump administration's ...

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves toured a sprawling mega-prison for alleged gang members on Friday in Tecoluca, El ...

Report says proposal to place survivors in notorious CECOT facility rejected before men were returned to Colombia and Ecuador ...

Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities illustrate a growing obsession with prison construction as the only perceived ...

On March 15, the Trump administration loaded more than 200 men onto three planes bound for El Salvador, where they were to be locked in its notorious CECOT prison. A video of the men being marched, ...

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves visited the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in San Vicente, El Salvador's ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday will visit the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia wasn't an activist and he didn't choose to become locked into what has become one of the most ...

The women’s accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration’s vetting of migrants it has sent to the notorious prison. On March 15, the Trump administration loaded more than 200 ...