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

By the third hour in chains, Adan Caceres’ head was pounding and his lips were cracking from thirst.

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

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

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

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

As the US doubles down on overt interventions, experts warn policymakers may be overlooking a key battlefield: prisons across the region.

A federal judge is conducting an inquiry into the matter.

It's one thing to observe those contradictions. I understood that for Yessenia, Miguel, and their twin 10-year-old daughters, ...

President Trump intends to name the deputy homeland security secretary to be the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, multiple ...

Video released on Friday showed Chaves touring cell blocks inside the high-security facility, accompanied by journalists, ...

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said that deportation operations are her decision and denied defying a court order to halt ...