An undocumented migrant and suspected member of the notorious MS-13 gang has been arrested in Massachusetts after being ...

CECOT enforces strict silence and order among ... They climbed the bars and waved white shirts like flags of surrender. Some pleaded for phones to call home. A few screamed curses.

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

enforced silence that envelops CECOT. But this unit is different. The Venezuelans chant “Liberty!” and “Venezuela!” They proclaim their innocence, so loudly you can hear them from outside. They ...

They climbed the bars and waved white shirts like flags of surrender ... because it is almost merciful in comparison to the rest of CECOT, and to the larger prison system of El Salvador.

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 ...

(Jessie Tarbox Beals/Missouri Historical Society) In these videos, the inmates, most of whom have Indigenous features, remain, for the most part, mute — removing their shirts at the command of ...

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.

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 ...

A federal judge pressed a Justice Department attorney Wednesday about conflicting statements from the Trump administration regarding the more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members that were ...

Meanwhile, Bukele built something of a monument to his repressive approach. CECOT, short for the Terrorism Confinement Center, opened in 2023 and is now believed to have a capacity of 40,000 ...

Unlike CECOT, where tattooed gang members reside in brightly lit, crowded cells, Santa Ana inmates wear yellow T-shirts and move more or less freely. Some spend much of their time outdoors raising ...