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 ...

One of the world’s biggest prisons, with a 40,000 capacity (equivalent to almost half the UK’s current prison population), CECOT was built two years ago. It now houses many thousands of the ...

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 ...

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

Bukele ordered construction of ‘Latin America’s biggest prison’ as he launched his ... of British couple No alcohol allowed at Saudi World Cup 2034 including 'in stadiums and hotels ...

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 ...