Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities in a central hallway.
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 ...
or CECOT, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) Prison guards stand outside holding cells during a media tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in ...
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has offered to incarcerate criminals deported from the U.S. in the Central ...
After meeting Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador's president has offered to house U.S. deportees and even American ...
Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele said his administration is willing to take in "only convicted criminals" in exchange for a fee ...
Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a ...
or CECOT, stands in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) Inmates exercise under the watch of prison guards during a press tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, ...
Rubio told reporters that more details would be forthcoming. CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, is Latin ...
In this handout picture provided by the Salvadoran presidency inmates observe from a cell inside the mega- prison Terrorist Confinement Centre (CECOT) on June 11, 2024 in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
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 ...
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 ...