Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without ...

Explore the reality of El Salvador's mega-prison for gang members, where inmates are serving life sentences and face no ...

CECOT (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) is a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to ...

THE names of ruthless drug kingpins conjure ghoulish images of vicious assassinations, burning cars, white powder, weapons ...

MS-13 inside the world's most violent and brutal street gang. Explore the leaders, structure, criminality and the fight back ...

Torres, 29, led the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside clique on Long Island, while Sosa-Guevara, 33, commanded the ...

An investigation into misconduct allegations out of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department station in the City of Industry gave rise questions about a tattooed group of deputies at the ...

E. Martin Estrada said that, while court filings note that Saavedra has a station tattoo, prosecutors “are not alleging that he is necessarily part of any deputy gang” or that his conduct was ...

Update (5:28 PM): A police spokesperson says that the gang unit is now responding to the shooting. EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- El Paso Police officers are at the scene of a shooting on the 3000 block ...

Two years ago, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department internal investigators learned about a group of Lakewood station deputies who shared a common tattoo of a spade, with the number 13. Internal ...

The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...