When elected last July, prisons were at the top of the new government’s priorities. At his first press conference as Prime ...

President Donald Trump said that he asked his counterpart Nayib Bukele if El Salvador could build more prisons to jail as many American criminals as possible — U.S. citizens included. Seated next to ...

The U.S. has sent hundreds of people to the notorious mega-prison in El Salvador known as CECOT. William Brangham discussed conditions inside that facility with Noah Bullock, the executive director of ...