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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

El Salvador has offered to incarcerate American convicts and illegal migrants of any nationality deported from the United ...

President Bukele’s proposal includes imprisoning US criminals in El Salvador’s largest prison for a fee. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) meets El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele at his ...