CECOT enforces strict silence and order among inmates. But Module 8, which houses Venezuelan deportees, deviates from this norm. Story To grasp why El Salvador built the Terrorism Confinement ...

To grasp why El Salvador built the Terrorism Confinement Center—the prison known as CECOT—you need to know about the killings that plagued the country before it existed. For more than a year ...

The researchers behind the study attempted to learn as much as they could about a list of 238 men rendered to CECOT, the El Salvador prison, on March 15, obtained and reported by CBS News.

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 ...

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 ...

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz is the first American journalist to tour the "Tren de Aragua" ward in El Salvador's CECOT prison and speak with prisoners. One prisoner he speaks with claims to have killed ...

US lawmakers were greeted with jeers, screams, and aggressive hand gestures from inmates in El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) mega-prison during a chaotic visit las… ...

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 ...

Alleged migrant gang members are being held in El Salvador's CECOT prison. A federal judge pressed a Justice Department attorney Wednesday about conflicting statements from the Trump ...

Boasberg questioned Kambli about whether the government would concede that transferring people to CECOT without due process would mean the government had violated their rights. “I don't know if ...

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 ...