Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...
El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...
YouTuber Ruhi Çenet was left stunned by the solitary confinement cell inside El Salvador's notorious maximum security prison, CECOT.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...
The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.
By Alek Buttermann El Salvador's recently floated plans to enter international prison management could represent a Copernican ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared ...
The Trump administration is considering a surprise proposal from the Central American nation to incarcerate American ...
El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally as well as the country’s ...
Even before the campaign against gangs, El Salvador’s prisons were notoriously violent and overcrowded but the crown jewel of Bukele’s fight is the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT ...
Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele said his administration is willing to take in "only convicted criminals" in exchange for a ...
In this handout picture provided by the Salvadoran presidency inmates wait as 2,000 detainees are moved to mega- prison ...