Article: POTUS says it will be fine to put American criminals in prisons in abroad

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Feb 5, 2025

POTUS says it will be fine to put American criminals in prisons in abroad

PHOTO CAPTION: Members of the media walk inside a sector, during a tour in the "Terrorism Confinement Center" (CECOT) prison complex, which according to El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, is designed to hold 40,000 inmates, in Tecoluca, El Salvador October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday it would be fine to put American criminals in prisons in another nation, adding there were countries who will take criminals from the United States.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday described as "very generous" an offer by El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele to house dangerous criminals from the United States in his country's jails, and said the Trump administration would have to study it.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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