Bukele also revealed where he would house those deported from the US: "our mega-prison". The mega-jail, also known as Cecot ...

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

The newly built maximum-security jail he referred to, Cecot [Terrorism Confinement Centre], is at the centre of his drive to lock up and punish the most violent gang members. The government ...

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

Building of the Cecot mega-jail started shortly afterwards. Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The first prisoners were transferred to Cecot in early 2023 Conditions at the facility and the ...

After meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday, Bukele offered to lock up convicts "of any nationality", sent by the United States, at the facility known as CECOT, where prisoners live ...

His secretary of state Marco Rubio described Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to incarcerate them at his notorious Terrorism Confinement Centre – or CECOT – as ‘very generous’.

He last year opened CECOT, where he has now offered to jail Americans. Designed to house 40,000 inmates, the vast prison lies behind huge concrete walls on the edge of a jungle, with inmates ...

Watch: Rare video shows El Salvador inmates in their cells in mega-jail The mega-jail, also known as Cecot (short for Terrorism Confinement Centre), has become emblematic of Bukele's iron-fist ...

El Salvador has agreed to take deportees from the United States and violent criminals from U.S. prisons in an "extraordinary ...