InSight Crime found that the Department of Defense's Joseph Humire tracked Tren de Aragua's activity in his previous role and ...

The Central American country's new maximum-security prison will house 5,100 inmates who are linked to drug trafficking and ...

Costa Rica advances plans for a $35M maximum-security prison holding 5,100 inmates, drawing from El Salvador's CECOT to ...

By bnl editorial staff Costa Rica's decision to construct a mega-prison modelled on El Salvador's controversial Cecot ...

Costa Rica will begin construction this year on a new maximum-security prison inspired by the El Salvador mega-prison at the ...

Since taking office, President Donald Trump’s administration has held thousands of undocumented immigrants — including many ...

The Trump administration released its new, drastically scaled-down version of the State Department’s annual human rights ...

He said there was crime — “bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs ...

The proliferation of water lettuce on El Salvador's largest wetland reservoir, known as Lake Suchitlan, is jeopardizing a key ...

The U.S. government under Trump tried to disappear a gay Venezuelan man seeking asylum to a torture prison in El Salvador ...

After 125 days held in the notorious prison — and an immigration judge dismissing his asylum claim in absentia — Hernández Romero was removed from El Salvador to Venezuela in July in a prisoner swap ...

The rule of law depends on obedience to judicial orders,” D.C. Circuit Judge Cornelia Pillard wrote in her dissent.