Instead of being sent back to Venezuela as expected, Francisco was among more than 200 Venezuelan nationals deported to CECOT, El Salvador’s high-security prison known for housing alleged gang members ...

Family members of Venezuelans deported to El Salvador's infamous CECOT mega-prison are demanding proof of life of their loved ...

On June 7, Trump ordered National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell anti-ICE protests. The Department of Justice is ...

A coalition of immigrant rights groups is suing to invalidate the Trump administration's deal to house detainees in a ...

In a photo released last year by the press office of El Salvador's president, alleged gang members are held at CECOT. (El Salvador presidential press office/AFP/Getty Images) In a photo released ...

TECOLUCA, EL SALVADOR ... or CECOT. Survivors told us that cells built for 50 people — evidenced by 50 cots — held up to 250 prisoners with access to one non-functioning toilet.

Bukele has referred to the men incarcerated in CECOT as “terrorists” pulled from El Salvador’s streets, even as many of those shown in government images of the prison were likely arrested ...

Perhaps better known than El Salvador’s beaches and volcanoes, though, is the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT by its Spanish acronym. Over the past few months, coverage of Bukele’s ...

Beneath a volcano in El Salvador lies a secretive mega-prison where the only way out, according to the justice minister, is in a coffin. Known as CECOT — the Spanish language acronym for ...

It means the men being held in a detention north Texas under a wartime law created back in the 1700s, will be given a chance to prove their innocence before being exiled to the Center for Terrorism ...

Yet during this week’s frenzy, US media obsessively zeroed in on El Salvador’s Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism, or CECOT, a prison constructed by Bukele’s government where some ...

Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday, April 16, to check on Abrego Garcia's health and well-being, a month after he was deported to a Salvadoran supermax prison known as CECOT.