Keith Octavio Rodriguez Padilla, referred to as "a prolific firearms' trafficker" by authorities, was sentenced in a San ...

After being at-large for 16 days, Mexican authorities have secured the arrest of Cesar Fabián "N", alias "El Ceviches," an ...

El Salvador welcomed 3.9 million tourists in 2024, establishing itself as a prominent tourism hotspot in Central America.

A high-ranking member of an MS-13 gang clique in New York has pleaded guilty to racketeering and other federal charges in a case involving seven slayings, including the 2016 killings of two high schoo ...

Ahead of Trump’s taking office, the move shields Venezuelans, Ukrainians, Salvadorans and Sudanese from possible deportation ...

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El Salvador is now the safest country in Latin America. The astonishing reduction in homicide rates is a result of President ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

More than one per cent of Territorians are set to ring in the New Year from inside a jail cell, meaning the NT has the second highest prison rate in the world behind El Salvador. Mr Varley said ...

It was a defining moment of the fall of the Syrian regime - rebels freeing inmates from the country's most notorious prison. A week on, four men speak to the BBC about the elation of their release ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Thousands of prisoners should be moved to open prisons to tackle overcrowding and help prepare inmates for release, a former justice secretary ...