Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...
Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...
Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador ... of the capital San Salvador. Able to hold 40,000 inmates – nearly half the entire UK prison population – the CECOT is made up of ...
(AP video shot by: Amaranta Marentes) Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared cell during a press ...
Nayib Bukele offered to house ‘dangerous American criminals’ and outsource part of the U.S.’s prison system for a ‘relatively low’ fee ...
President Nayib Bukele said El Salvador could house convicted criminals, including convicted US citizens, into its mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...
Rubio told reporters that more details would be forthcoming. CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, is Latin America’s largest prison. Opened in 2023, the maximum security ...
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 ...