Hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members awaiting deportation from the US have been transferred to a high-security mega-prison in El Salvador as part of Donald Trump's vow to crack down on ...

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Over 250 gang members have been brought to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) after the Trump administration defied a federal judge's ruling. This move is part of a larger ...

They were American tourists hoping for a good time, they said. Then they became captives of an autocratic government. They were American tourists hoping for a good time, they said. Then they ...

El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members there. The Center for Terrorism ...

SAN SALVADOR — The crown jewel of El Salvador’s aggressive anti-crime strategy — a mega-prison where visitation, recreation and education are not allowed — became the latest tool in U.S ...

Tens of thousands of prisoners are locked up in rows of metal bunks at a jail where criminals are disposed of “without using the death penalty”. Boasberg verbally ordered the planes be turned ...

More than 250 alleged gang members arrived in Venezuela on Sunday (16 March) after being deported from the US by Donald Trump. Despite a judge ordering for the flights packed with prisoners that ...

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This week government figures are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme. But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of ...

THE HAGUE – Former Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said former President Rodrigo Duterte was not being held at The Hague Penitentiary Institution or the Scheveningen prison. Medialdea said they ...