When the prison, known by its Spanish acronym CECOT, received its first 2,000 inmates in 2023, Bukele released polished promotional videos of guards rushing shirtless, shackled, tattooed men into ...

El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison is a maximum-security facility built to hold the country’s worst criminals in eight buildings across a space equal to seven football stadiums. The Center ...

Inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations are imprisoned at CECOT in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 16. (Courtesy of Salvadoran Government via Getty Images) 30,899 people played the daily ...

He has not just been deported, he has been locked up in CECOT. ("A prison where there is no education or remediation or recreation, because it is a prison that does not intend to release its ...

The grotesque images that have emerged from CECOT, like the human zoos that preceded it, are about presenting a barely contained savagery, reinforcing the idea that some people don’t qualify as ...

In 2023, he opened the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, where the immigrants were sent over the weekend even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring their deportations under ...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, center, said that alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been moved from El Salvador’s notorious CECOT megaprison. REUTERS According to Van Hollen, Abrego Garcia ...

It was a reprieve for the group of Venezuelans detained at Bluebonnet, who still face being potentially sent to CECOT, the notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador where the Trump ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, was deported to the El Salvadoran megaprison "Terrorism Confinement Center" (CECOT) last month for being an alleged MS-13 gang member, but his attorneys maintain he does ...