Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on social media that prisons in El Salvador operate as "concentration camps for the ...

What was behind the controversial deal to imprison U.S. deportees at the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT?

A year after being deported from the United States to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, many of the 252 Venezuelans ...

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, ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...

The men spent four months inside the prison before they were released and returned to Venezuela, where many faced the same ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native living Maryland, was mistakenly deported in March to a mega-prison in his home ...

The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported. Rather than tattooed gang members in ...

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 ...

“They kept hitting me in the stomach, and when I tried to breathe, I started to choke on the blood. My cellmates shouted for help, saying they were killing us, but the officers said they just wanted ...

On the 4th anniversary of El Salvador's state of exception, WOLA condemns its indefinite extension, citing mass detentions, prison deaths, and the erosion of democratic rule of law.