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

Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without ...

In Santa Elena, the Bajada de Chanduy commune learned in March 2024 about the maximum-security prison planned just 10 km (6 mi) north of their community, in an area long disputed with the ...

The Due Process of Law Foundation, which campaigns for human rights in Latin America, has said the ... “That’s why they are here, in a maximum-security prison that they will never leave ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

Jelly Roll and his co-writers celebrated the No. 1 status of their song "I Am Not Okay" by performing at Riverbend State ...

Mr Bukele said that El Salvador would ask for payment and was ready to incarcerate Americans in a prison he opened in 2024 that is Latin America ... opening of the maximum-security prison ...

In 2019, after Zubeidi had already served years in Israeli prisons, he was arrested again. But in 2021, he and five other prisoners tunnelled out of a maximum-security ... in the north of the ...

The criminal gang originated in a Venezuela prison and has ... groups throughout South America as they follow those paths, and that they appear to follow the migration north to the United States ...

El Salvador is thought to be home to 'the world's worst prison', where President Donald Trump can now send US citizens. Maximum security prison ... the United States of America the opportunity ...