The constitutional amendment published on Tuesday would allow life imprisonment for children as young as 12 convicted of homicide, terrorism, or rape.

At 44, Bukele has built the world’s highest imprisonment rate and scrapped presidential term limits. What comes next?

Human Rights Watch submits this report in advance of the 103rd pre-session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of El Salvador. The submission focuses on violations of ...

A child, victim of the earthquake, receives a plate of food while others wait in line on February 15, 2001, in Verapaz, El Salvador. [Getty Images] More than 1,000 minors have been convicted of crimes ...

There are no investigations. Police just create “profiles.” These are arbitrary acts. For example, a neighbor calls 123 and says, “I saw some young men using drugs.” A report is filed, the police ...

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has signed into law constitutional reforms to permit life prison sentences for people as ...

Prisoners, including gang members, stand in their cell in El Salvador’s high-security ‘Center for the Forced Detention of Terrorism.’ The Trump administration has deported more than 200 Venezuelan ...

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