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 ...

Isabel Medina with Loyola University New Orleans College of Law told ... happy’ to move imprisoned Americans to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison (EPA) “There is very little constituency ...

Unlike other Latin American leaders, El Salvador’s president is more than embracing US plans to move millions of undocumented ...

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

is on hold at at least one federal prison in Texas, according to sources who spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity. Earlier this week, NPR obtained a copy of the new clothing policy ...

How has Bukele used the prison system ... El Salvador’s gangs once used jails as operational hubs to issue orders, extort businesses on the outside and recruit new members — something also ...

What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there The U.S. government cannot deport American citizens and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that “there ...

In slickly produced videos, prisoners in boxer shorts are marched into prison yards and made to sit nearly atop each other. They are packed into cells without enough bunks for everyone. At the time, ...

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 72 kilometers (45 miles ...