When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited El Salvador in early February to meet with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ...

San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of ...

Rubio is correct; experts have struggled to find a modern example of a country sending its own citizens to a foreign jail.

SAN SALVADOR - El Salvador's Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized crime to be housed in the same prisons as adults, albeit in separate areas.

Bukele had offered to take in people deported from the US, regardless of their nationality, and house them in El Salvador's mega-jail. "We can send them and he will put them in his jails," Rubio said.

The 47-year-old’s bust comes after El Salvador cops had issued a warrant for his arrest on aggravated homicide charges back in September 2020 ... and sentenced to prison. Marin-Lozano, meanwhile ...

El Salvador's government does not regularly provide information on the number of children held in prison or who are in pre-trial detention. It said in February last year 1,065 children had been ...

El Salvador to House Minors Convicted of Organized Crime in Adult Jails SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized ...