CECOT: Inside the Mega-Prison El Salvador Has Offered Up for Trump's Use
Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities in a central hallway.
Explainer: What is El Salvador's mega-prison that could take US criminals?
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has offered to incarcerate criminals deported from the U.S. in the Central American country's CECOT mega-prison.
El Salvador’s Prisons Are Notorious. Will They House Trump’s Deportees?
President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a reputation as being tough on crime, but have raised alarms over rights abuses.
What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
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 imprisoned citizens to the tiny Central American nation,
Inside El Salvador's mega-prison where Trump says he would jail Americans 'in a heartbeat'
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.
El Salvador Offers To House Violent U.S. Criminals and Deportees
El Salvador has extended an unprecedented offer to the United States: to take in deportees and violent criminals of any nationality. The announcement came from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday following a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
Rubio lauds El Salvador's offer to put U.S. deportees, including American criminals, in "mega-prison"
After meeting Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador's president has offered to house U.S. deportees and even American inmates in his country's "mega-prison."
El Salvador’s president agrees to take U.S. prison inmates after meeting with Marco Rubio
Nayib Bukele offered to house ‘dangerous American criminals’ and outsource part of the U.S.’s prison system for a ‘relatively low’ fee
Inside the notorious El Salvador mega-prison where Marco Rubio wants to send US deportees
Under an unprecedented deal reached this week, El Salvador has agreed to accept deportees from the US of any nationality, including violent American criminals.
El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal
El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally as well as the country’s violent criminals — even if they’re American citizens.
US inmates could be sent to El Salvador prisons under deal being explored by Trump, Rubio
The State Department describes El Salvador’s prisons as “harsh and dangerous.” Its country information webpage says, “In many facilities, provisions for sanitation, potable water, ventilation, temperature control,
‘Black hole of human rights’: Inside El Salvador’s notorious prison that could house US prisoners and deportees
El Salvador has offered to house convicted American criminals and deportees in its mega-prison for a fee. US Secretary of ...
Rubio touts Bukele's 'generous' offer to jail U.S. citizens in El Salvador, but experts say it's illegal
Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a ...
El Salvador offers to take U.S. deportees of any nationality – and Americans serving time
El Salvador has offered to accept undocumented immigrants of any nationality with criminal backgrounds from the United States ...