Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

YouTuber Ruhi Çenet was left stunned by the solitary confinement cell inside El Salvador's notorious maximum security prison, CECOT.

In this handout picture provided by the Salvadoran presidency inmates observe from a cell inside the mega- prison Terrorist Confinement Centre (CECOT) on June 11, 2024 in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

It's a living hell with the lights on 24/7. What horrific event inspired the construction of CECOT? Why is the prison under fire for human rights violations? And what makes this prison so high ...

It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, around45 miles east of the capital San Salvador. Able to hold 40,000 inmates – nearly half the entire UK prison population – the CECOT is made ...

or CECOT, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) Prison guards stand outside holding cells during a media tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has offered to incarcerate criminals deported from the U.S. in the Central American ...

CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, is Latin America’s largest prison. Opened in 2023, the maximum security facilty can hold as many as 40,000 inmates. On Monday, Bukele ...

“It’s no different than our prison system ... Getty Images Gang members seen in a cell at the CECOT, in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador. Picture: Getty Images Inmates are packed into ...

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 ...