Bukele offered to house violent U.S. and migrant criminals in his prison system, in "extraordinary" gesture. But experts doubt the move would hold up in court.

President Trump says he would deport American criminals to El Salvador "in a heartbeat" if it were legal. An ACLU attorney ...

Here is what we know about the mega-prison, that has drawn praise from hardline law-and-order politicians and ire from human rights organizations.

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said Wednesday that his country has agreed to accept migrants from other countries ...

Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a ...

Some of the most violent gang members in El Salvador are locked away inside the country's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) where Trump could soon send US criminals ...

The Trump administration is reviewing a proposal from El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to imprison Americans in the ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ordered the mega-prison Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, built as he began his ...

El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, under President Nayib Bukele's administration, represents a severe crackdown on ...

The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador, where President Donald Trump claimed he would jail US citizens in a 'heartbeat', can hold 40,000.

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ...

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