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What to know about the El Salvador mega-prison where Trump sent deported Venezuelans
The US has sent hundreds of migrants to El Salvador to be held without trial in Cecot, a controversial prison known for its harsh conditions. The US has sent hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants ...The Guardian - Mar. 20 -
Family members of migrants deported to El Salvador mega prison speak out
Family members who suspect their loved ones were sent to El Salvador's mega prison fear they are wrongly being accused of being members of a Venezuelan gang. NBC News' Julia Ainsley has the details ...NBC News - Mar. 19 -
Venezuelans deported to mega-prison 'trapped in black hole'
Gertrudis Pineda tells the BBC she has no information about her son who was sent by the US to a prison in El Salvador.BBC News - 2h -
Venezuelans deported to mega-prison 'trapped in black hole'
Gertrudis Pineda tells the BBC she has no information about her son who was sent by the US to a prison in El Salvador.BBC News - 2h -
'It's him, it's him!' - Mother spots son deported from US in mega-prison footage
Some relatives of accused and deported gang members say their sons have been wrongly swept up in a Trump administration crackdown.BBC News - Mar. 19 -
Why the men sent to El Salvador's mega-prison may never make it out
Hundreds of Venezuelans deported to El Salvador from the U.S. may face long or indefinite detention in a prison system known for human rights abuses.NBC News - Mar. 20 -
Judge orders Trump administration to return two trans prisoners to women’s facilities
Federal Bureau of Prisons told to transfer women back and provide hormone therapy treatment for gender dysphoria. A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons (BoP) to transfer two ...The Guardian - Mar. 19 -
Trump official visits mega-jail holding deported Venezuelans
The visit by the US Homeland Security secretary is seen as a show of support for the Salvadorean leader.BBC News - 1d -
DHS secretary visits El Salvador prison holding deported Venezuelans
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem visited an El Salvador prison housing Venezuelan migrants who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Tren de Aragua gang. NBC’s Kelly ...NBC News - 1d -
Kristi Noem visits El Salvador prison holding deported Venezuelans
The Trump administration is arguing in federal court that it was justified in sending the Venezuelans to El Salvador, while activists say officials have sent them to a prison rife with human rights ...CBS News - 14h -
Kristi Noem visits El Salvador prison holding deported Venezuelans
The Trump administration is arguing in federal court that it was justified in sending the Venezuelans to El Salvador, while activists say officials have sent them to a prison rife with human rights ...CBS News - 8h -
Kristi Noem visits El Salvador prison holding deported Venezuelans
The Trump administration is arguing in federal court that it was justified in sending the Venezuelans to El Salvador, while activists say officials have sent them to a prison rife with human rights ...CBS News - 8h -
What is the 1798 law that Trump used to deport migrants?
The wartime Alien Enemies Act has been controversially used to deport Venezuelans to a mega-jail in El Salvador.BBC News - Mar. 17 -
Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits the El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since ...NBC News - 18h -
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since ...NBC News - 18h -
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since ...NBC News - 18h -
Families of deported Venezuelans are distraught their loved ones were sent to El Salvador
Relatives of recently deported Venezuelan immigrants said they were anguished and shocked to discover their loved ones were sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador after they recognized them ...NBC News - Mar. 19 -
Private Prisons Are Ramping Up Detention of Immigrants and Cashing In
The Trump administration is expected to use thousands more beds in these facilities as part of its mass deportation effort.The New York Times - Mar. 7 -
What Mega Millions' price increase and new rules mean for jackpots, odds
Mega Millions will roll out several changes next month, including new ticket prices, jackpots and an increase in the odds of winning, the game announced.CBS News - 10h -
What Mega Millions' price increase and new rules mean for jackpots, odds
Mega Millions will roll out several changes next month, including new ticket prices, jackpots and an increase in the odds of winning, the game announced.CBS News - 10h -
Piastri hails 'mega' McLaren as both Ferraris disqualified at Chinese GP
Oscar Piastri hailed his "mega" McLaren after winning a Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday later overshadowed by the disqualifications of Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc for technical ...Yahoo Sports - 4d -
‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims
Brother of Francisco Javier García Casique spotted him in a video showing scores of Venezuelan prisoners being taken to notorious El Salvador prison. Donald Trump ’s White House has described the ...The Guardian - Mar. 19 -
Trump waging ‘sickening’ psychological war, deported Venezuelan’s lawyer says
One detained man’s lawyer says he is gay artist who had fled persecution in his home country, not a gang member. A lawyer for one of the Venezuelan immigrants sent from the US to a notorious mega ...The Guardian - Mar. 18 -
'God used Donald Trump to save me': Ex-Tenn. senator gets pardon 15 days after entering prison
The pardon by Trump came after the top pardon attorney at the DOJ said she had been fired after restoring the gun rights of actor Mel Gibson.CNBC - Mar. 13 -
Trump floats sending Tesla attackers to El Salvador prisons as White House rallies to defend Musk
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, the world's richest man, donated more than $250 million toward President Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign.CNBC - 6d -
Mega Millions is changing: 7 things to know before April's price change, game overhaul
More expensive tickets, faster-growing jackpots, and a built-in multiplier — here's what to expect when Mega Millions gets overhauled next month.The Hill - 2d -
Prisoners to be held in police cells to deal with overcrowding
Operation Safeguard is triggered when prisons are close to running out of space.BBC News - Mar. 18 -
‘We don’t know how any of this will play out’: what’s next for US deportees in El Salvador
Political scientist Mneesha Gellman on the deportees’ fates, dire prison conditions and Bukele-Trump parallels. The Trump administration has flown 238 Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison that ...The Guardian - Mar. 20 -
Trump faces new legal battle after deporting Venezuelan migrants
President Donald Trump is defending his administration's controversial deportation of around 300 alleged Venezuelan gang members to a prison in El Salvador. The White House claimed authority for ...NBC News - Mar. 17 -
Watch: Dozens of inmates escape from Indonesian prison
At least 53 inmates escaped a prison in Aceh, Indonesia, with officials acknowledging overcapacity issues at the facility.BBC News - Mar. 12 -
Sightings of escaped prisoner after van getaway
Jamie Cooper has been on the run since leaping from a prison van on the M55 in Preston on Wednesday.BBC News - 6d -
Missing prisoner found after van motorway escape
Jamie Cooper, who escaped from a prison van on Wednesday has been arrested.BBC News - 5d -
Trump Officials Say Deportees Were Gang Members. Few Details Were Disclosed.
Families and immigration lawyers argue not all of the deportees sent to a prison in El Salvador over the weekend had ties to gangs.The New York Times - Mar. 19 -
What Is Tren de Aragua?
A gang with roots in a Venezuelan prison, the criminal group was at the center of President Trump’s order invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.The New York Times - Mar. 16 -
America’s next killing spree: 10 days, five states, six death-row prisoners set to die
Desolate spectacle of executions begins again under Trump, in landscape of capital punishment as riven as US is as a whole. David Leonard Wood. Jessie Hoffman. Aaron Gunches. Wendell Grissom. ...The Guardian - Mar. 11 -
Sam Bankman-Fried Lobbies Trump Associates in Hopes of a Pardon
Mr. Bankman-Fried’s family and allies are trying to help him escape a 25-year prison sentence for fraud related to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.The New York Times - Mar. 7 -
Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations to El Salvador
The news that hundreds of migrants were headed to an El Salvador prison caused panic for some Venezuelans, who worried that their loved ones might be among them.The New York Times - Mar. 17 -
The 'giant mega-shed' that has left neighbours in tears
Residents say the 'megashed' towers over their homes, dominating the skyline and blocking the sun.BBC News - Mar. 17 -
Impeached South Korean leader freed from prison
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison Saturday after a court ruled his detention over insurrection charges was invalid. The conservative president faces charges ...The Hill - Mar. 8 -
Prison labor, an invisible workforce of the U.S. economy
Incarcerated workers produce $2 billion in goods and $9 billion in services every year. But not all of the incarcerated are paid for their labor, which can benefit people inside and outside a ...CBS News - Mar. 9