’60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on CECOT Trump Administration Prison
About three hours before “60 Minutes” was set to air a program detailing “brutal and tortuous conditions” at a prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported alleged illegal immigrants for detention, the CBS News program abruptly announced it was delaying its broadcast.
“Editor’s Note: The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of ‘60 Minutes’ has been updated. Our report ‘Inside CECOT’ will air in a future broadcast,” the news program said in an announcement posted on social media around 4:30 p.m. ET Sunday. The episode was slated to air at 7:30 p.m. ET (or after the conclusion of NFL coverage on CBS).
Variety has reached out to CBS news for additional information.
The “60 Minutes” segment, as previously announced, was to have featured correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewing to deportees who the Trump administration has sent to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador.
According to the U.S.-based National Immigration Law Center, in March and April 2025, the U.S. government sent more than 280 young men to CECOT, “a foreign jail notorious for torture, in secret, with no notice to their loved ones or attorneys. There, they were held incommunicado and tortured.” Four months later, 252 of those men were released from the prison and “sent to their native Venezuela (notably, a country that a number of the men had originally fled, fearing persecution).”
On Sunday “60 Minutes,” in place of the report on CECOT, aired a segment from correspondent Jon Wertheim, described like this: “Jon Wertheim travels to Nottingham, England, to visit the Kanneh-Mason family —seven siblings, each still under 30, all celebrated classical musicians whose talent is truly music to the ears. Supporting one another in harmony as they take to the world’s stage, this extraordinary septet, as Wertheim discovers, is an orchestra greater than the sum of its parts. David M. Levine is the producer.”
Sunday’s “60 Minutes” also featured a double-length segment on “The Sherpas of Everest,” for which correspondent Cecilia Vega treked to Everest Base Camp guided by a 19-year-old sherpa.
