YouTuber Ruhi Çenet was left stunned by the solitary confinement cell inside El Salvador's notorious maximum security prison, CECOT.

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...

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

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

Built to house El Salvador's most dangerous gangsters, conditions at the maximum-security "Terrorism Confinement Center" ...

Unlike other Latin American leaders, El Salvador’s president is more than embracing US plans to move millions of undocumented ...

El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally and to house some of the ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele made an unusual offer to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He proposed that the United ...

A prison complex in El Salvador housing some of the country's ... Jails cells with steel bars are split among the eight cell blocks and can hold up to 100 detainees. Each cell comes equipped ...

What is the CECOT? Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 45 miles east of ...