Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

or CECOT, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) Prison guards stand outside holding ...

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ...

Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US ...

Under an unprecedented deal reached this week, El Salvador has agreed to accept deportees from the US of any nationality, ...

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.

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 ...

Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March ... Able to hold 40,000 inmates, the CECOT is made up of eight sprawling pavilions.

Explainer - What Is El Salvador's Mega-Prison That Could Take ... deported from the U.S. in the Central American country's CECOT mega-prison. The offer, which Rubio later described as "very ...

or CECOT, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Feb. 2, 2023. Credit: AP/Salvador Melendez Even before his announcement with Rubio, Bukele had planned to put more people in prison. Bukele ordered the mega ...

What is the CECOT? Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 45 miles east of ...