El Salvador, prison system

CECOT: Inside the Mega-Prison El Salvador Has Offered Up for Trump's Use
Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities in a central hallway.
Behind El Salvador's prison system that may handle U.S. deported migrants
CBS News' Lilia Luciano got a rare look at El Salvador's prison system after President Nayib Bukele offered to house dangerous deported migrants from the U.S. This comes as President Trump continues his efforts to crackdown on illegal immigration.
Explainer: What is El Salvador's mega-prison that could take US criminals?
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 country's CECOT mega-prison.
The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America’s Worst Criminals
The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.
El Salvador OK'd migrant prison deal as U.S. paved way for nuclear power
El Salvador's Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco said a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. would help power the central American country "at competitive pricing
A look inside an El Salvador mega prison
El Salvador's president is offering to take in deportees and U.S. criminals at its prisons, including American citizens. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano got a rare first-hand look inside one of its mega prisons.
What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
El Salvador, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) Prison guards stand outside holding cells during a ...
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Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison where president has offered to hold ‘dangerous’ US citizens and criminal migrants
El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...
El Salvador to house minors convicted of organized crime in adult jails
El Salvador's Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized crime to be housed in the ...
US to Send Migrants & Criminals to El Salvador's Mega Prison? | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G
US to Send Migrants & Criminals to El Salvador's Mega Prison? | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G El Salvador's President, ...
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El Salvador offers to hold ‘dangerous’ US citizens and criminal migrants from any country in their hellhole ‘mega-prison’
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the US ...
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What to know about the El Salvadorian mega-prison Trump has promised to send U.S. prisoners
Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 45 miles east of the capital.
Rubio lauds El Salvador's offer to put U.S. deportees, including American criminals, in "mega-prison"
After meeting Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador's president has offered to house U.S. deportees and even American ...
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El Salvador tests global prison market with US inmate plan
By Alek Buttermann El Salvador's recently floated plans to enter international prison management could represent a Copernican ...