She wore a T-shirt with “Nisa” superimposed over the NASA logo, and sported a tattoo of her daughter’s signature on her arm. Elizabeth Alvarado, the mother of MS-13 victim Nisa Mickens ...

An MS-13 gang member from Central Islip was sentenced Wednesday to 55 years in federal prison for his role in planning and executing the 2017 hacking killings of four young men in a Central Islip ...

It's not the Bloods, it's not the Crips, but a gang called MS-13. 'Live and Direct' takes MSNBC into the streets to investgate how the gang is terrorizing neighborhoods and treating their ...

La Mara Salvatrucha, better known as MS-13, has been a part of my life for 17 years now — roughly my entire career as a criminal defense lawyer. I’ve defended more than my share of its members ...

“This is for the Mara Salvatrucha, Inside the MS-13, America’s Most Violent Gang,” a book by investigative reporter Samuel Logan, explains the origin of the gang’s name: Mara is ...

This story was co-published with New York magazine. Henry was twice forced to join the brutal gang MS-13, first in El Salvador and then on Long Island. Twice, he tried to escape its violence.