José Adolfo Macías Villamar — known as "Fito" — has led Los Choneros and its "network of assassins and drug and weapon ...

El Salvador's notorious maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center is harsh, dangerous and cruel. And that's just what its ...

El Salvador's CECOT prison, where over 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members deported from the U.S. are being held, has been criticized for alleged human rights violations.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) to observe the facility ...

Erik Ramsey’s suicide in solitary confinement highlights rising mental illness and a jump in such deaths in North Carolina ...

The deportations to CECOT, Noem said Wednesday on the social media site X, “sent a message to the world that America ... cells all day, aside from brief exercise breaks or to visit the prison ...

The Trump administration’s admission that it sent a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in error shows the need for outside oversight, critics say, as they fight efforts to ship migrants to ...

Noem's visit to CECOT is part of a broader trip to Latin America ... Men stay in their cells all day, aside from brief exercise breaks or to visit the prison clinic. They eat in their cells ...

This same verse (albeit from a different translation of the Bible) figures prominently in Robert Bresson’s 1956 prison break drama ... tapped messages on shared cell walls.

She saw prisoners in cells with masks on lined ... De Aragua gang to the infamous prison -- even though a federal judge ordered officials not to do so. "America has changed because we are putting ...