CBS airs El Salvador prison report pulled from '60 Minutes' in December

CBS broadcast on Sunday its "60 Minutes" report on a Salvadoran mega-prison condemned by human rights groups for its harsh conditions, weeks after the network pulled the segment just hours before runtime.



The report on the facility housing migrants deported from the United States was postponed from an initial air date of December 21, with CBS saying it required additional reporting and would be ‌broadcast later.



"CBS News leadership has always been committed to airing the 60 Minutes CECOT piece as soon as it was ready," the network said in a statement on Sunday, though the show had mistakenly been streamed on Canada's Global TV app in December.



Sunday's broadcast added comments from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, details of the criminal records of those deported, and additional reporting on one with tattoos, the network said.



The United States has sent hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants without trial to the facility, known as CECOT.



"Last year, the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, a country most had no ties to, claiming they were terrorists," CBS said in a program description on the show.