While the U.S. criminal justice system is far from perfect, addressing its shortcomings requires reform, not abdication of ...

He was arrested in El Salvador after the government declared war on the gangs in 2022. Vazquez explains that he expects to be incarcerated in CECOT "for the rest of my life." "We murdered a lot of ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on a post on X (formerly Twitter): "We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT ...

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 ...

Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...

The American government has not yet said whether it plans to go ahead with sending U.S. prisoners to El Salvador, but Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who Trump has appointed to run the Department of ...

El Salvador's offer to house deportees and U.S. citizens in its infamous prisons – for profit – signals a new and troubling ...

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 ...