FILE - A mega-prison known as Detention Center Against Terrorism (CECOT) stands in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 5, 2023. On Wednesday, July 10, 2024, Cristobal, an NGO, reported it had documented the deaths of 261 people, four of them children, who were in Salvadoran state custody, after being detained during the state of exception in force since March 2022. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
FILE - A handcuffed Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member waits for the start of a court trial at the Isidro Menendez Judicial Center in San Salvador, El Salvador, Oct. 10, 2019. A court in the country has imposed sentences of up to 1,420 years in prison for certain MS-13 affiliates indicted for crimes committed between 2018 and 2019, the Attorney General’s Office said Monday, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)