Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without ...

CECOT (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) is a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to ...

Explore the reality of El Salvador's mega-prison for gang members, where inmates are serving life sentences and face no ...

Former El Salvador ... to 18 years in prison for his role in negotiating the gang truce. Despite Funes’ troubled presidency, the FMLN won again with President Salvador Sánchez Cerén who ...

The former president had pending sentences in El Salvador for corruption and making deals with the country’s powerful street gangs that amounted to 28 years, but he never set foot in prison.

The former president had pending sentences in El Salvador for corruption and making deals with the country’s powerful street gangs that amounted to more than 26 years, but he never set foot in prison.