The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

Corrections Corporation of America, now CoreCivic, in 2008 announced it was going to build Tennessee's largest prison in the shadow of a 500-foot abandoned cooling tower. The tower was a remnant ...

In February 2023, Salvadoran authorities launched what they claim to be "Latin America's biggest prison." The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a 57-acre (23-hectare) "mega-prison", is located ...

The company's CEO forecasts "perhaps the most significant growth in our company's history, over the next several years." ...

Executives at the private prison firm CoreCivic say they anticipate the Trump administration's policies will lead to "the ...

If President Nayib Bukele and President Trump have their way, America’s worst criminals are destined for El Salvador’s biggest prison as well.