(AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) A body screening device used to register inmates is displayed during a media tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Feb. 2, ...

El Salvador has offered to house convicted American criminals and deportees in its mega-prison for a fee. US Secretary of ...

Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US ...

CECOT has been described as a “hell hole”. Picture: Getty Images Inmates wait as 2000 detainees are moved to megaprison CECOT ...

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ...

open image in gallery Inmates remain in a cell at the Counter-Terrorism Confinement Centre mega-prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador on January 27, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images) El Salvador suspended ...

Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 72 kilometers (45 miles ...