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 ...

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

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

Federal law does not allow the deportation of U.S. citizens, and El Salvador’s prisons are internationally notorious for life ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they'd struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship ...

One such fearsome facility is the 'Terrorism Confinement Centre', commonly referred to as 'Crecot', which stands ready to house deportees from the States. It’s estimated that Crecot, known for ...

FILE - Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared cell during a press tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in Tecololuca, El Salvador, Oct. 12, 2023.

Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich Sunday visited El Salvador's controversial Confinement Center for Terrorism (CECOT), probably seeking to replicate the model in her country ...

President Nayib Bukele had proposed to take people deported from the US, regardless of nationality, and put them in prisons like the Terrorism Confinement Center ( CECOT). Speaking about the ...