San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, ...

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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 ...

El Salvador's president is offering to take in deportees and U.S. criminals at its prisons, including American citizens. CBS ...

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Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism ...

VENEZUELAN prisons are plagued by gangs who prowl the corridors armed with machine guns, grenades and knives – terrorising ...

Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US ...

Independent journalist Nick Shirley shares chilling details about El Salvador's mega-prison CECOT on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ ...

Bukele offered to house violent U.S. and migrant criminals in his prison system, in "extraordinary" gesture. But experts ...

Despite reducing violence, the prison’s harsh conditions and lack of due process have drawn criticism from legal and human rights experts. El Salvador’s mega prison Trump has promised to send ...

The Trump administration is considering a surprise proposal from the Central American nation to incarcerate American ...