Packed with violence and fear, CECOT isn’t just a prison....it’s a symbol of El Salvador’s hardline crackdown. California closes $12-billion deficit by cutting back immigrants' access to ...

Instead of being sent back to Venezuela as expected, Francisco was among more than 200 Venezuelan nationals deported to CECOT, El Salvador’s high-security prison known for housing alleged gang members ...

CECOT enforces strict silence and order among inmates. But Module 8, which houses Venezuelan deportees, deviates from this norm. Story To grasp why El Salvador built the Terrorism Confinement ...

CECOT enforces strict silence and order among inmates. But Module 8, which houses Venezuelan deportees, deviates from this norm. Credit - Philip Holsinger To grasp why El Salvador built the ...

To grasp why El Salvador built the Terrorism Confinement Center—the prison known as CECOT—you need to know about the killings that plagued the country before it existed. For more than a year ...

This week’s Deadline: Legal Newsletter looks at the prospects for immigrants deported by the Trump administration to the CECOT prison.

More than two months after the Trump administration flew more than 200 people to a detention camp in El Salvador, there’s still a lot that remains unclear.

Mothers and relatives of the Venezuelan detainees in CECOT have been communicating about their loved ones in a WhatsApp group.

The demeaning spectacle of the human zoo comes to mind as one U.S. official after another has traveled to El Salvador for photo ops inside the notorious prison known as CECOT (in English, the ...

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz is the first American journalist to tour the "Tren de Aragua" ward in El Salvador's CECOT prison and speak with prisoners. One prisoner he speaks with claims to have killed ...

Deported Tren de Aragua gangbangers jeered and shouted and pressed against the bars of their cells in the first ever look inside the wing of El Salvador's hellhole CECOT prison where they are ...