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 ...

A reputed MS-13 gangbanger who had repeatedly snuck into the US illegally was finally nabbed by federal immigration agents — and could be headed to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison. Wilmer Alexi ...

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

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

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

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

Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities ...

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 ...

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, ...

The native of El Salvador and resident of Maryland has become a symbol of the Trump administration's policy of mass ...