Kilmar Abrego Garcia was beaten, tortured in El Salvador prison, court filing says The new details from Abrego Garcia's alleged treatment at CECOT come as part of a federal lawsuit filed by his ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he experienced “psychological torture,” physical abuse and alarming conditions while housed in El Salvador’s most notorious mega prison. The account, revealed ...

After Noticias Telemundo published its own report on CECOT in October 2023, Bukele retweeted the news segment and wrote, “In El Salvador, unlike most Latin American countries, our prisons are ...

SANTA ANA, El Salvador — The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported.

Beneath a volcano in El Salvador lies a secretive mega-prison where the only way out, according to the justice minister, is in a coffin. Known as CECOT — the Spanish language acronym for ...

El Salvador’s president has suggested he would double the number of people kept in every cell to expand CECOT’s capacity to 40,000 from about 20,000. Alex Peña/Getty Images ...

I just toured the CECOT prison in El Salvador. This maximum security facility houses the country’s most brutal criminals, including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and terrorists.

He is among more than 200 immigrants sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), El Salvador’s maximum-security gang prison, in the past month.

El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison is a maximum-security facility built to hold the country’s worst criminals in eight buildings across a space equal to seven football stadiums. The Center ...

Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in “the same” conditions as convicted gangsters, prison director Belarmino García said on Tuesday ...

With virtually no due process, the Trump administration has deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants it claims are part of the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador, where they are incarcerated at CECOT.

US News Kristi Noem tours El Salvador’s hell-hole CECOT prison ahead of negotiations for more gangbanger deportation flights By Alex Oliveira Published March 26, 2025, 7:38 p.m. ET ...