The cells are meticulously clean — an intentional and stark contrast to the dingy and squalid prisons of El Salvador’s past.

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, has released new footage from the Center of Confinement of Terrorism, the ...

El Salvador's government wants to show it has not given any special treatment to gang members El Salvador's jailed gang members will see "not one ray of sunshine", said the country's prisons ...

But the country with the second-highest per capita prison population after the US has not taken yet taken any such steps. El Salvador has been grappling with gang violence for decades and its ...

Argentina is considering emulating El Salvador’s controversial crackdown on violent crime after a visit by President Javier Milei’s security minister to the country’s new mega prison.

Salvadoran Teodora Vásquez will remain in prison for another 20 years. Crédito: Oscar Rivera/AFP/Getty Images A court in El Salvador decided late Wednesday to uphold a 30-year prison sentence ...

Members of the MS-13 gang crowd into their cramped cell inside Chalatenango prison, in northern El Salvador. Authorities house rival gangs in separate prisons to avoid deadly riots, but extreme ...

An curved arrow pointing right. El Salvador’s government released footage of its new "megaprison," which can hold up to 40,000 inmates. More from News El Salvador’s government released footage ...

A former bank branch manager has been sentenced to prison after using his position to steal over $200,000 directly from the account of one of his customers.

The cells are meticulously clean — an intentional and stark contrast to the dingy and squalid prisons of El Salvador’s past. The men are inside these cells for 23½ hours a day. They do not work.