Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves toured El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison on Friday, eyeing its model to combat rising ...

Video released on Friday showed Chaves touring cell blocks inside the high-security facility, accompanied by journalists, ...

Report says proposal to place survivors in notorious CECOT facility rejected before men were returned to Colombia and Ecuador ...

A court has granted an emergency motion sought by the DOJ to pause contempt hearings over the administration's handling of ...

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves visited the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in San Vicente, El Salvador's ...

El presidente de Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, recorrió el viernes el Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), la ...

El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown ...

Produced by ProPublica in collaboration with Alianza Rebelde Investiga, Cazadores de Fake News and The Texas Tribune, Surviving CECOT details what the men say they experienced inside the prison and ...

A photograph authentically shows incarcerated men stripped of most clothing and tied together in CECOT, a Salvadoran prison. In April 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump deported alleged gang members ...

Once Angie Gonzalez started to hear rumors that her husband might finally leave CECOT this week, she stopped being able to sleep. She got out of bed at 4 a.m. on Friday morning and has spent the day ...

The notorious mega-prison which ended years of brutal gang rule in El Salvador and stripped thousands of the most violent criminals of of their rights has been operating for two years this week. CECOT ...