YouTuber Ruhi Çenet was left stunned by the solitary confinement cell inside El Salvador's notorious maximum security prison, CECOT.

Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...

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

By Alek Buttermann El Salvador's recently floated plans to enter international prison management could represent a Copernican ...

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

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

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’.

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ordered the mega-prison Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, built as he began his ...

The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a 57-acre (23-hectare) "mega-prison", is located 70 km (43.5 miles) east of the capital, San Salvador, in a rural region of the Tecoluca district.

Sentences range from 60 to more than 1,000 years for those incarcerated at Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT), the newest of the jails there. One of the world’s biggest prisons, with a 40,000 ...