The U.S. has sent hundreds of people to the notorious mega-prison in El Salvador known as CECOT. William Brangham discussed ...

The prison had eight solitary cells, each measuring four-and-a-half “tatami” mats, or about 7.4 square meters. At the time, the sanitarium director could detain patients in the cells without ...

And then they were herded into crowded mass jail cells ... full-fledged government crackdown on gang violence during which, he said, constitutional rights and due process would be suspended. The ...

In January 2024, Macias Villamar was discovered missing from his prison cell in Quito, Ecuador, where he was serving a 34-year sentence for drug trafficking. A 60-day state of emergency was ...

Tecoluca, El Salvador (CNN) — Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in ... and they are kept in communal cells holding up to 100 men each ...