El Salvador's CECOT prison, where over 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members deported from the U.S. are being held, has been criticized for alleged human rights violations.

Born in Liverpool, Robert Maudsley has lived in isolation in Wakefield Prison for decades and once made a bizarre request ...

An "administrative error" sent a Maryland father of a 5-year-old autistic son to prison in El Salvador. His family is ...

Randall Miller was the director of Midnight Rider, the Gregg Allman biopic, but went to jail after a tragic accident killed Sarah Jones.

They are not allowed visitors or time outdoors, and they sleep on metal beds without mattresses. The few areas in the prison that are "carved out for respite – break rooms, dining halls ...

Overcrowding: Each of its 256 cells houses around 156 inmates with no mattresses or sheets, only metal bunk beds. Lack of basic ... reinforcing the prison’s brutal reputation.

E.M. and his girlfriend fled persecution in their native Venezuela in 2021 and dreamed of making a new life in the United States.

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A U.S. immigration judge subsequently shielded him from deportation to El Salvador because of likely gang persecution in his ...

An Afrikaner prisoner shares a video tour of his tiny cell at Kgosi Mampuru maximum security prison, revealing cramped ...