A series of bone-chilling new photos show the barbarous conditions inside a mega-prison in El Salvador that was built to hold gangbangers from the country’s most violent criminal organizations.

Here are photos showing what it's like in El Salvador's prisons. El Salvador, a country of 6.5 million, has been dealing with rampant street gangs since the early 1990s, after its civil war.

“People need to see that image,” Noem said of the striking photos of her surrounded by rows of tattooed inmates crammed inside their cells at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.

Senator Chris Van Hollen was finally able to meet wrongly deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But at the last minute, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s aides staged one detail in their photo.

Salvador Meléndez, a photographer for Revista Factum, has put together an album on the violence gripping El Salvador. His photos begin in 2010, recalling the horrific scene in which members of the ...

Bitcoin is now a legal tender in El Salvador, three months after President Bukele announced the idea at a Miami crypto conference. The rollout this week was rocky and was met with heavy skepticism ...

TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — President Donald Trump’ s administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison, but is ...

In a photo released by the press office of El Salvador’s president, alleged gang members, deported by the U.S. government, kneel at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) on April 12.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura wife of Kilmar Garcia walks with supporters into Federal Court in Greenbelt, MD. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador and his family and supporters want him back.

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.