El Salvador's Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized crime to be housed in the same prisons as adults, albeit ...

Recently, the Trump administration and the president of El Salvador announced they had reached an agreement permitting the US to send both detained migrants and imprisoned citizens to a mega-prison in ...

The Associated Press' U.S. immigration news editor, Elliot Spagat, was joined by Rebecca Santana, who covers the Department ...

Last week, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele offered to put U.S. immigration detainees and other U.S. prisoners in his country’s massive CECOT prison — even American citizens and legal ...

Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...

open image in gallery Donald Trump told reporters on February 4 that he would be ‘very happy’ to move imprisoned Americans to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison (EPA) “There is very ...

Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US. His secretary of state Marco Rubio described Salvadoran President Nayib ...

However, El Salvador now has one of the lowest murder rates, projecting a ratio of less than one per 100,000 this year. Prisons like CECOT are, it is said, serving their purpose then. Mr Trump's ...