Costa Rica will begin construction this year on a new maximum-security prison inspired by the El Salvador mega-prison at the ...

Tens of thousands of suspected gang members arrested under an internationally criticized crackdown in El Salvador will be ...

The Trump administration’s immigration rules seem to spare none! Andry José Hernández Romero, a 31-year-old gay makeup artist ...

Four men deported from the US to a notorious facility in El Salvador tell the BBC after their release they were mistreated.

In the weeks since the U.S. released hundreds of Venezuelan nationals incarcerated at an infamous prison, several detainees have spoken out about the abuses they endured.

The Central American country's new maximum-security prison will house 5,100 inmates who are linked to drug trafficking and ...

A Venezuelan man who was deported from California to El Salvador and held at one of the country's infamous prisons recounts ...

At El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, Rengel said guards hit him with fists and batons and, on one occasion, viciously beat him after taking him to an area of the prison ...

The Trump admin has argued that the men are now outside U.S. legal jurisdiction and no longer protected by constitutional rights.

In July, a three-country deal released 238 Venezuelan migrants the Trump administration had rounded up and sent to a ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has tightened his grip on power and made life ever-more difficult for critics -- now a ...

The more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's mega-prison in March have left El Salvador to be sent to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap that ...