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 ...

Inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations are imprisoned at CECOT in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 16. (Courtesy of Salvadoran Government via Getty Images) 31,018 people played the daily ...

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 ...

Deported Tren de Aragua gangbangers jeered and shouted and pressed against the bars of their cells in a rare look inside the wing of El Salvador’s hellhole CECOT prison where they are being housed.

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 ...

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 ...

On May 18, relatives of the Venezuelan migrant detainees in El Salvador's mega prison CECOT, announced to a WhatsApp group the death of Marlene Ramirez, a grandmother who raised one of the men ...

El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members there. The Center for Terrorism ...

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 ...