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 in separate areas. The measure would apply to ...

The ‘extraordinarily violent’ Venezuelan gang is the latest source of US hallucinations about horrors of migration.

SAN SALVADOR (AP) — A court in El Salvador on Thursday sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more ... Palestinian militants name 3 Israeli men to be freed in next hostage ...

WASHINGTON—The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration Wednesday for access to migrants transported from the U.S. mainland to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, arguing that the ...

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 ...

As the conversation meandered throughout the day, it occurred to me to get his thoughts on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ...

El Salvador's government does not regularly provide information on the number of children held in prison or who are in pre-trial detention. It said in February last year 1,065 children had been ...

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In a significant legislative move, El Salvador's Congress on Wednesday endorsed a reform ... which has involved the implementation of mass trials and the construction of a mega prison facility. These ...

He has also offered to put convicted American criminals in El Salvador's Mega Prison. Bukele has overseen a sharp fall in gang crime in El Salvador. But arbitrary arrests, custodial torture and ...

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, ...