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

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

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — Tens of thousands of suspected gang members arrested under an internationally criticised ...

A Venezuelan man who was deported from California to El Salvador and held at one of the country's infamous prisons recounts his months in custody, recalling meager rations and the torture and beating ...

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

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

In February 2023, El Salvador opened what it claims is Latin America's biggest prison with capacity for 40,000 inmates. The 57-acre (23-hectare) prison is isolated in a rural region 70 km (43.5 ...

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

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

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ordered the mega-prison Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022.

A split appeals court panel is tossing out a judge’s contempt finding against President Donald Trump’s administration in a ...