El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown into a labor-driven model praised for reducing violence but criticized ...

El Salvador once had one of the highest murder rates in the world, with prisons controlled by gangs from the inside. Under ...

The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported. Rather than tattooed gang members in ...

A prisoner exchange is set to return to Venezuela hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers whom President Donald Trump sent to one of the most notorious prisons in El Salvador. The exchange swapped ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a significant issue in the Trump administration's ...

Carlos Daniel Terán, 19, still remembers the words a prison warden told him when he entered El Salvador's mega-prison, CECOT. "He told us we were never going to leave this place," Terán recalled. It ...

Hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported to El Salvador from the United States in recent days could face long or indefinite detention in a prison system rife with human rights abuses, according to ...

Venezuela has announced an investigation into claims of torture of migrants who the US sent to a prison in El Salvador, from ...

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves toured a sprawling mega-prison for alleged gang members on Friday in Tecoluca, El ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A migrant from Venezuela deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador has taken the first step toward suing the U.S. government, saying he was wrongly sent to a notorious ...

Report says proposal to place survivors in notorious CECOT facility rejected before men were returned to Colombia and Ecuador ...