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.
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.
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 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.
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, an agreement that comes as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up its mass deportation efforts.
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.
Rubio says El Salvador has offered to jail US criminals and deportees of any nationality
He met with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and senior officials at Bukele's residence on Lake Coatepeque outside the capital for almost three hours, where they agreed to go beyond El Salvador's acceptance of its own deported citizens.
Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees of any nationality, including Americans
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said El Salvador's president will accept deportees of any nationality, including violent American criminals imprisoned in U.S.
Rubio says El Salvador’s offer to jail violent American criminals faces ‘legalities’
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that El Salvador’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals raises clear legal issues but described it as “very generous” and said that President Donald Trump would make a decision on whether to accept it.
‘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 ...
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 ...
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’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 ...