Once known as one of the most dangerous detention centers in the murder capital of the world, El Salvador’s sprawling La Esperanza prison now sits at the center of an international debate over crime, ...

A report released Wednesday by human rights groups determined that the deportation and treatment of more than 200 Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El Salvador for months at the request of the U.S.

Guards at El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement, known as CECOT, beat Venezuelan detainees with batons and fists almost every day. They denied them medical care, fed them sparse meals, and ...

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a “60 Minutes” segment that was supposed to air on Sunday about migrants being sent to a prison in El Salvador. The segment was titled “Inside CECOT,” which ...

Chile's far-right president-elect visits El Salvador mega-prison, plans to talk security with Bukele - Chile’s far-right ...

Washington – A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration must give legal due process to Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador, either by providing court ...

El Salvador's leader Nayib Bukele on Tuesday defended a huge prison that has become key to deportations from the United States under President Donald Trump, after drawing criticism for alleged rights ...

A federal judge said Wednesday he plans to move ahead quickly on a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in ...

In an X post, Bukele said El Salvador will “cooperate fully” and proposed releasing the entire prison population to any country willing to receive them, under the condition that it includes everyone, ...