El Salvador's notorious maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center is harsh, dangerous and cruel. And that's just what its ...

The day after he was arrested while working at a restaurant in Texas, Mervin Jose Yamarte Fernandez climbed out of a plane in shackles in El Salvador, bound for the largest mega-prison in Latin ...

El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of ...

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

A former Crawford County deputy has appealed his prison sentence in a case where he was accused of hitting a man in the head ...

The mother was waiting for her son in Venezuela, but she recognised him from his tattoos in a news report from the infamous ...

Officers held their heads down to waist-level as they escorted them to the facility in shackles. The new inmates were then forced to kneel while prison guards shaved their hair and shouted commands.

The president is a huge fan of the Central American nation's CECOT prison, a cesspool of human rights violations ...

it banned the use of leg shackles, but now guards tell us that’s putting them and the public in danger. Earle spoke with Brian Englert, the President of the Allegheny County Prison Employees Union.

Inmates around the country have complained about dangerous "kennel" vans, which have metal benches and walls, a prisoner advocacy group says.