Costa Rica explores El Salvador’s controversial security tactics under Nayib Bukele to combat rising gang violence, sparking ...

A federal judge orders the Donald Trump administration bring back the Maryland father they mistakenly deported to an El Salvador mega prison.

Kristi Noem posted a video from a high-security prison in El Salvador while wearing a watch with an estimated pricetag of $50 ...

Noem’s three-day trip around the Americas began at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, more commonly known as CECOT. The deportations to CECOT, Noem said Wednesday on the social media ...

Families of Venezuelan deportees held in El Salvador’s infamous Cecot prison can petition the Salvadoran government for their release – but the fruitfulness of that process is an open question ...

El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), one of the world’s most notorious maximum-security prisons, has once again drawn international attention after US President Donald Trump ...

And that's the point. Welcome to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT as it is commonly known. It’s where President Donald Trump is now saying that vandals in the U.S. defacing ...

CECOT is the centrepiece of El Salvador President ... Inmates are made to wear white t-shirts and shorts, and have their heads shaved every five days. They are not given cutlery for eating.

Inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations are imprisoned at CECOT in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 16. (Courtesy of Salvadoran Government via Getty Images) Advertisement ...

The CECOT, opened in 2023 ... they changed into the prison’s all-white uniform – knee-length shorts, T-shirt, socks and rubber clogs – and placed in cells.

“They were immediately transferred to CECOT,” Bukele wrote, adding that they would be held at that facility “for a period of one year (renewable).” Today, the first 238 members of the ...