Costa Rica plans to expand its maximum-security capacity from 80 to 1,000 inmates and begin construction of a $35 million ...

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has taken another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum se ...

New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the ...

The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter ...

El Salvador, after first being sent to the country's notorious CECOT prison. The new filing from the State Department says, "The Salvadoran government responded on April 21 that Mr. Abrego García ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposed a swap in which more than 200 Venezuelan migrants deported there from the US would be traded for the same number of political prisoners held by ...

They are being held in an enormous mega-prison where rights groups have decried conditions as inhumane. Escobar mentioned recent opinion articles warning that "El Salvador could become a new ...

Bukele said he would ask El Salvador's foreign ministry to be in contact with the Maduro government, which did not immediately respond to the post.

Border czar Tom Homan defended sending "designated terrorists" to prisons like the one in El Salvador ... worst of the worst need to be sent to a prison like that because we got to protect ...

A Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration has been moved to a new prison, US Senator Chris Van Hollen has said. The Democratic senator was speaking ...

Yet during this week’s frenzy, US media obsessively zeroed in on El Salvador’s Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism, or CECOT, a prison constructed by Bukele’s government where some ...