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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Speaking in Parliament, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, said she had commissioned a rapid three-month audit into the “current scale and nature of gang-based exploitation across the country ...

A gang of youths has been detained after they lured a student to a north-west London car park where she was beaten up and stabbed because of her transgender identity. The Old Bailey heard the ...

Swift police action led to the arrest of four suspects, aged between 22 and 44, in a pre-dawn highway robbery on Tuesday, January 14, where truck parts worth R50,000 were stolen and crew members ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new government-backed local inquiries into grooming gangs, as ...