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Man describes being imprisoned in El Salvador
NBC News' David Noriega traveled to El Salvador and spoke with a man who managed to get out of the country's prison system ...
ACLU Asks Court To Make Trump Administration Bring Everyone Back From El Salvador Prison
The petition expands those covered by the ACLU's request to all migrants held at the CECOT megaprison, not just those at risk ...
A timeline of the Abrego Garcia case resulting from the Maryland man's mistaken deportation to El Salvador
The Trump administration said Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was living in Maryland but entered the country illegally in 2011, was ...
A closer look at El Salvador's prison system
No contact with the outside world. Metal bunks with no mattresses. A dangerous lack of food. NBC News' David Noriega reports on the conditions inside El Salvador's prison system as President Trump ...
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Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network
Filmmaker Neil Brandvold has covered much of El Salvador’s transition from dangerous gangland to authoritarian dreamworld, ...
Venezuelans' lawyers urge judge to order Trump to facilitate return from El Salvador
Lawyers for a group of at least 137 Venezuelan men sent to a prison in El Salvador last month have urged a judge to order ...
El Salvador’s president slams Venezuela’s Maduro for rejecting his prisoner swap proposal
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has criticized his Venezuelan counterpart's rejection of a swap that would see Venezuelan ...
El Salvador proposes swapping US-deported Venezuelans for Venezuelan 'political prisoners'
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Sunday proposed sending 252 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. and imprisoned in his ...
Venezuela’s Maduro demands El Salvador’s Bukele release ‘kidnapped’ deportees after prisoner swap offer
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has demanded El Salvador release hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported from the ...
El Salvador proposes prisoner swap with Venezuela involving U.S. deportees
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has proposed a prisoner swap with Venezuela involving 250 Venezuelan deportees from the ...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia tells US senator of traumatizing stay in El Salvador prison
A Maryland man wrongly deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador told a U.S. senator that he was traumatized by ...
El Salvador’s Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Venezuela for U.S. deportees
El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, has proposed an exchange of Venezuelans deported by the U.S. for 'political prisoners' ...