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Why El Salvador’s ‘mega’ prisons are making the world safer
This week’s White House meeting between President Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele offered a crucial opportunity.
Inside the ‘Tropical Gulag’ in El Salvador Where U.S. Detainees Are Being Held
A U.S. senator was allowed to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, but he was denied access to where Mr. Abrego Garcia had ...
A look inside the huge prison in El Salvador linked to US deportations
El Salvador has accepted from the U.S. more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants — whom Trump administration officials have accused ...
‘Torture in El Salvador with U.S. taxpayer dollars’: Habeas petition directly challenges man’s indefinite detention in notorious ‘legal black hole’ foreign prison
"CECOT is a legal black hole; there is no access to counsel, no visitation, and no way for anyone on the outside to ...
Inside CECOT, El Salvador's notorious prison, where inmates never see the light of day
The Salvadoran prison, where Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held, keeps inmates tightly confined with little ...
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What Makes El Salvador’s Brutal Prisons Even Worse For Women Inmates
Human rights groups warn that El Salvador's prisons are marked by overcrowding, lack of access to basic services and repeated ...
‘I’m sick to my stomach’: Google Earth images of notorious Salvadoran prison explode into TikTok panic
The prison opened in January 2023—its swift construction is visible via Google Earth history—as part of El Salvador’s ...
Tom Moran: It’s not just the deportations. Cruelty is Trump’s signature.
On April 10, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Abrego Garcia’s deportation was illegal and that the government must “facilitate” ...
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Exiled from Prison to Prison: US Deportees to El Salvador Face Dire Conditions and Human Rights Abuses
The Salvadoran government has offered to accept deportees from the US, but those with tattoos will be imprisoned for having ...
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'We were lied to': Two women the Trump administration tried to send to El Salvador prison speak out
On March 15, the Trump administration loaded more than 200 men onto three planes bound for El Salvador, where they were to be locked in its notorious CECOT prison. A video of the men being marched ...