San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

He described: "Having visited the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and the Robben Island prison where Nelson Mandela ...

The Trump administration is considering a surprise proposal from the Central American nation to incarcerate American ...

The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador, where President Donald Trump claimed he would jail US citizens in a 'heartbeat', can hold 40,000.

Two prosecutors from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office who recommended the release of Erik and Lyle Menendez ...

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

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

What To Know. Rubio met with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador before announcing their agreement on ...

Last year, El Salvador opened a controversial new maximum security prison for alleged gang members, known as the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT. The news comes after President Donald Trump ...