Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Member of the Salvadorian army stands guard outside of maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of ...

Prisons persist as centers of criminal command and call centers for organized crime groups, a weak point that justifies the ...

Before Trump sent Kilmar Ábrego García to CECOT, Bukele arrested a U.S. citizen for his tattoos. The Biden administration ...

The deadly riot in a prison at Altamira in northern Brazil, which left more than 50 dead on Monday, is the latest unrest in Latin America's notoriously overcrowded jails. Over the past three decades, ...

The Trump administration is escalating efforts to crack down on gangs that move illicit drugs into the United States, with deadly military strikes at sea and measures to toughen up borders taking ...