A Salvadoran woman whom activists say was falsely accused of homicide after suffering a stillbirth has been freed from prison in a case that has sparked renewed scrutiny of El Salvador's sweeping ban ...

El Salvador's attorney general on Friday said he plans to investigate allegations that the government of President Nayib Bukele is negotiating with members of a notorious gang to reduce homicides.

Andry Hernández Romero emerged from the Salvadoran mega-prison as a household name. He's now grappling with how to heal from ...

Carlos Daniel Terán, 19, still remembers the words a prison warden told him when he entered El Salvador's mega-prison, CECOT. "He told us we were never going to leave this place," Terán recalled. It ...

Under the $4.76 million agreement, El Salvador had to agree to only use the funds for the holding of the alleged gang members ...

It was like hell. That's how some of the Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador described their time at the maximum security prison there, a prison called CECOT ...

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. Rather than tattooed gang members in ...

The record from Latin America shows that soldiers in city streets produce both short-term benefits and long-term damage.