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 ...

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 ...

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

STORY: Arturo Suarez tearfully reunited with his family in Venezuela on Tuesday after being released from a months-long detention in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. "I thought of my daughter, ...

The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported. Rather than tattooed gang members in ...

Carlos Daniel Terán, 19, still remembers the words a prison warden told him when he entered El Salvador's mega-prison, CECOT. "He told us we were never going to leave this place," Terán recalled. It ...

It was like hell. That's how some of the Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador described their time at the maximum security prison there, a prison called CECOT ...