Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities in a central hallway.

President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a reputation as being tough on crime, but have raised alarms over rights abuses.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has offered to house incarcerated people in his country's prison system. Bukele wrote that this would allow the United States to "outsource part of its prison system.