The Latest Breaking News from CECOT

'60 Minutes' Delays CECOT Prison Report as Trump-Era Deportations Face Scrutiny

'60 Minutes' delays a report on El Salvador's CECOT prison as scrutiny grows over Trump administration deportations and ongoing legal challenges.

International Business Times UK · Dec 22, 2025

Noem OK'd El Salvador deportations despite court order: DOJ

The Trump team has defended its decision to proceed with the deportations.

Axios · Nov 26, 2025

Inside El Salvador’s hellish supermax prison: Migrant detainees deported by Trump tell of harrowing abuse and torture

The Trump administration deported dozens of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador earlier this year as part of the US’s migration crackdown. Nigel Farage wants to employ a similar policy in Britain if Reform UK comes to power

The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2025

‘Cemetery of the living dead’: Venezuelans recall 125 days in notorious El Salvador prison

Arturo Suárez and others deported in Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown describe dire conditions at Cecot

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2025

Venezuelan men deported to notorious CECOT prison say they were raped and beaten by guards

‘There were so many moments of anguish and terror,’ former detainee says

The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2025

'Welcome To Hell': Freed Migrants Tell Of Horrors In Salvadoran Jail

Mervin Yamarte left Venezuela with his younger brother, hoping for a better life.

International Business Times · Jul 27, 2025

Migrant deported to notorious El Salvador prison demands $1.3M from Trump administration after savage beatings, vile conditions and 24-hour confinement

First legal action after Venezuelans released from CECOT details ‘physical, verbal and psychological’ abuse inside

The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2025

Tears Of Joy As Venezuelan Migrants Return From El Salvador Prison 'Hell'

Tears of joy and relief flowed freely Tuesday as Venezuelan Maikel Olivera returned home to his mother's embrace after surviving four months of "real hell" in a Salvadoran prison.

International Business Times · Jul 22, 2025

Lawyers say Venezuelan migrant ordered returned to US sent to home country under prisoner exchange

A Venezuelan asylum seeker who entered the U.S. as a child has been sent back to his home country after being deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison earlier this year

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2025

They were freed from a ‘torture prison’ in El Salvador. This is their life now

IN FOCUS: Trump deported dozens of Venezuelans to a brutal Salvadoran jail under the Alien Enemies Act. They were set free five months later — and could fight for their return to the United States, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2025