Once known as one of the most dangerous detention centers in the murder capital of the world, El Salvador’s sprawling La Esperanza prison now sits at the center of an international debate over crime, ...

SAN SALVADOR -- Chile's far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador's mega-prison for accused gang members on Friday ahead of a meeting with President Nayib Bukele to discuss ...

An old photo of rows of prisoners in El Salvador has resurfaced in Korean-language posts falsely claiming it shows South Korean workers who were detained in an immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery ...

President Trump said on Sunday he would “love” to send American inmates to El Salvador’s mega-prison but first needs to check ...

Carlos Daniel Terán, 19, still remembers the words a prison warden told him when he entered El Salvador's mega-prison, CECOT. "He told us we were never going to leave this place," Terán recalled. It ...

Migrants deported months ago by the United States to El Salvador under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown arrive at Simon Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Friday, ...

A federal appeals court judge has dismissed a misconduct complaint filed by the Justice Department against a judge who ...

It was like hell. That's how some of the Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador described their time at the maximum security prison there, a prison called CECOT ...

The mayor of Medellin on Friday touted the construction of a mega-prison in his city, Colombia's second-largest, becoming the latest Latin American leader to mimic the iron-fisted approach to gang ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A migrant from Venezuela deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador has taken the first step toward suing the U.S. government, saying he was wrongly sent to a notorious ...

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now... 'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador ...