RICHARD Madeley has visited El Salvador’s brutal “living death” mega-prison, where lifeless cells are packed to the rafters ...

Carlos Mojica, known as "El Viejo Lin," had been in maximum security for more than 20 years, but authorities say he continued ...

A Channel 5 documentary filmed inside El Salvador’s CECOT prison has drawn attention to the country’s tough approach to gang ...

Once known as one of the most dangerous detention centers in the murder capital of the world, El Salvador’s sprawling La Esperanza prison now sits at the center of an international debate over crime, ...

Carlos Mojica, the leader of notorious Central American gang Barrio 18, has died in prison after suffering kidney problems, ...

Hundreds of alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-A3) gang were tried at an El Salvador prison on Thursday, accused of collectively carrying out more than 29,000 murders. Mass trials are a ...

Hundreds of MS-13 gang members accused of homicides, drug and arms trafficking, and disappearances are the subject of a mass trial in El Salvador.

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 ...

With nearly 500 alleged gang members on “collective” trial in front of unknown judges, human rights organisations are criticising the fairness of proceedings ...

By Gerardo Arbaiza and Emily Green SAN SALVADOR, April 23 (Reuters) - From inside a Salvadoran mega prison, more than one hundred alleged gang members sit in rows, wrists cuffed and ankles shackled, ...

SAN SALVADOR -- Chile's far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador's mega-prison for accused gang members on Friday ahead of a meeting with President Nayib Bukele to discuss ...

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 ...