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Mass Incarceration and Democratic Deterioration: Three Years of the State of Exception in El Salvador
On March 27, 2022, at the request of President Nayib Bukele, the Legislative Assembly passed a state of exception, limiting ...
Why the men sent to El Salvador's mega-prison may never make it out
Families and lawyers fear for the deportees who may face indefinite detention in a prison known for human rights abuses.
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Why El Salvador's Ruthless Prisons Are Even Worse For Female Inmates
Human rights groups warn that El Salvador's prisons are marked by overcrowding, lack of access to basic services and repeated rights violations — but that the situation is even worse for women, who ...
What we know about the El Salvador ‘mega prison’ where Trump is sending alleged Venezuelan gang members
El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members there.
Chance of Laken Riley's illegal immigrant killer doing time in El Salvador prison addressed by lawmakers
Could Jose Ibarra, Laken Riley's convicted killer, be deported to an El Salvador prison where the Trump administration just sent hundreds of Venezuelan gang members?
What Will Happen to Deportees at El Salvador Prison?
Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities ...
Inside El Salvador’s brutal mega prison where Donald Trump is sending 250 gang members
Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US ...
El Salvador says families can file complaints over unjust detention in notorious mega-prison
Families of Venezuelan deportees held in El Salvador’s infamous Cecot prison can petition the Salvadoran government for their ...
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Noem warns immigrants during tour of El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans held
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, where Venezuelans the Trump ...
Trump Fantasizes About Sending American Tesla Vandals to Prison in El Salvador
Donald Trump suggested that Americans charged with vandalizing Tesla property should serve 20 years in El Salvador's ...
Trump floats sending Americans to foreign prisons. Civil rights groups say that would be illegal.
Trump suggested on Truth Social that people charged with attacking Tesla could serve time in “lovely” prisons in El Salvador.