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El Salvador opens 40,000-person prison as arrests soar in gang crackdown
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAuthorities in El Salvador have opened one of Latin America's largest prisons, more than doubling...
Prison deaths mount in El Salvador's gang crackdown
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJesús Joya says his brother was “special” -- at 45, he was childlike, eager to please. “Henry, you’re going to get out,” Jesús shouted. Three weeks...
El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in 'war' on corruption
Reuters via Yahoo News· 12 months agoSAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Thursday pledged to build a prison...
They left gangs and found God. But they weren't spared in El Salvador's crackdown
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEl Salvador's evangelical churches rehabilitated ex-gang members. The country's crackdown on...
In Real Life: State of Exception
Newsy via AOL· 6 months agoIn Real Life: State of Exception In the span of four years, El Salvador has gone from being the murder capital of the world to the safest country in the...
The Bukele Model Means Security Without Liberty
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIllustration: Adani Samat "They were delicious," said a woman about the pupusas she received after casting her vote in El Salvador's recent presidential...
Asylum seeker from El Salvador has been held in ICE detention for more than six years
The Daily Advertiser via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA single mother and El Salvador migrant is seeking release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Honduras wants to build West's only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoHonduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its...
Honduras copies El Salvador's playbook in anti-gang crackdown
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last...
With a stroke of a pen, Gov. Newsom could keep a wounded Marine from being deported | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHe was brought to the United States from El Salvador as a small child without a visa. He grew up...
