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

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

In February 2023, Salvadoran authorities launched what they claim to be "Latin America's biggest prison ... 0.60 sq meters (6.45 sq feet), a violation of international standards. Data from the World ...

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 ...

“The fee would be relatively low for the US but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.” El Salvador’s Center for the Confinement of Terrorism is one of the largest ...

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

But the proposal has drawn attention to the prisons that Mr. Bukele has used in recent years to cripple the gangs that once ran rampant in El Salvador ... is Thailand’s biggest celebrity ...

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

stating that El Salvador is prepared to house American criminal offenders in its recently opened largest prison in Latin America for a fee. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele posted a tweet from ...

El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, commonly referred to as CECOT, is the country’s largest and newest prison, with a maximum capacity of 40,000 inmates. “The fee would be relatively ...

Mr Bukele said that El Salvador would ask for payment and was ready to incarcerate Americans in a prison he opened in 2024 that is Latin America’s largest. “We have offered the United States ...