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

President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

As a symbol of his “war” against gangs, Bukele inaugurated the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) on January 31, 2023, considered Latin America’s largest prison, in an uninhabited area outside ...

Some of the most violent gang members in El Salvador are locked away inside the country's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) where Trump could soon send US criminals ...

President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a ...

El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco ...

Corrections Corporation of America, now CoreCivic, in 2008 announced it was going to build Tennessee's largest prison in the shadow ... once planned to build the world's largest nuclear power ...

In February 2023, Salvadoran authorities launched what they claim to be "Latin America's biggest prison ... Data from the World Prison Brief (WPB), opens new tab says El Salvador has per capita ...

If President Nayib Bukele and President Trump have their way, America’s worst criminals are destined for El Salvador’s biggest prison as well.

If President Nayib Bukele and President Trump have their way, America’s worst ... Regarded as the world’s largest correctional facility, the mega-prison was intended to hold up to 40,000 ...