The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they'd struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...

President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a ...

After meeting Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador's president has offered to house U.S. deportees and even American ...

El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...

The CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, promoted by President Nayib Bukele, has drawn varying global reactions. It reportedly can house 40,000 inmates, including notorious gang members. While hardliners ...

Under U.S. immigration law, a country such as El Salvador can accept someone deported from the U.S. who isn’t a citizen of ...

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a former U.S. attorney said.