Tell CBS to air the segment about CECOT!

Just hours before it was scheduled to air, CBS News abruptly pulled a completed 60 Minutes investigation into El Salvador’s CECOT mega prison.

Multiple outlets —including CNN, NPR, the New York Times, and the Washington Post — report that CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss made the decision. The reporting was finished. The slot was booked. Then, at the last possible moment, the segment was killed.

The investigation examined conditions inside CECOT, a massive prison holding tens of thousands of people under El Salvador’s ongoing state of emergency. Human rights groups and journalists have documented mass detention without due process, extreme overcrowding, denial of legal access, and deaths in custody. Many detainees have never been charged with a crime.

This was not a routine delay. Pulling a flagship investigative segment hours before broadcast is an extraordinary act—one that raises serious questions about editorial independence and political interference. At a time when powerful figures are promoting CECOT as a model for “tough on crime” and immigration policy, silencing this reporting is especially alarming.

60 Minutes has built its reputation on confronting abuse and exposing the truth. That legacy is now at risk.

We are calling on Bari Weiss to air the completed CECOT segment in full immediately. We also demand a public explanation for why this decision was made and what safeguards CBS will put in place to prevent this kind of last-minute censorship from happening again.

Add your name to demand that CBS expose the truth and air the segment.

Silence protects abuse. Journalism exposes it.

Thanks,
Mary