The government of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, known for a harsh crackdown on street gangs and dissent, is holding ...

A Cristosal report documents 245 cases of political persecution in El Salvador, showing arrests, pretrial detention and ...

Trump administration accused Luis Muñoz Pinto of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang. Now living in Colombia he hopes to clear his name and study engineering in the US ...

Once known as one of the most dangerous detention centers in the murder capital of the world, El Salvador’s sprawling La Esperanza prison now sits at the center of an international debate over crime, ...

“They kept hitting me in the stomach, and when I tried to breathe, I started to choke on the blood. My cellmates shouted for help, saying they were killing us, but the officers said they just wanted ...

SAN SALVADOR -- Chile's far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador's mega-prison for accused gang members on Friday ahead of a meeting with President Nayib Bukele to discuss ...

President Trump said on Sunday he would “love” to send American inmates to El Salvador’s mega-prison but first needs to check if it’s legal.

His condition deteriorated and he lost more than 30 pounds in his first two weeks there, he said.

A federal appeals court judge has dismissed a misconduct complaint filed by the Justice Department against a judge who ...

The mayor of Medellin on Friday touted the construction of a mega-prison in his city, Colombia's second-largest, becoming the ...