A mega-prison in El Salvador ... (46 miles) southeast of the capital San Salvador, consists of eight buildings made of reinforced concrete. Each one has 32 cells of about 100 square meters ...

Cell signal is blocked within a mile-and-a-half ... President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador declared a state of exception, which empowered police and the military to arrest people on suspicion ...

How many prisoners does El Salvador hold? In April 2021, a year before the start of the state of emergency, the government reported nearly 36,000 prisoners. The government doesn’t regularly ...

(Salvador Melendez/AP) In 2015, El Salvador was the world’s murder capital, with 107 homicides per 100,000 people — as if one of Chicago’s worst neighborhoods was a country unto itself.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem acknowledged Monday that she was trying to send a message to migrant gang members and the American people when ... inside El Salvador’s notorious mega ...

However, El Salvador's prison population is now proportionally the highest in the world. Already overcrowded facilities are heaving under the new intake, prompting the government to announce the ...

What to Know About El Salvador's Mega-Prison After Trump Deal to Send People There SAN SALVADOR ... about 72 kilometers (45 miles) east of the capital. Able to hold 40,000 inmates, the CECOT ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained migrants and ...