Costa Rica News » Alajuela News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Costa Rica opens a Bukele-style mega-prison. Here’s how it got here
On Wednesday, President Laura Fernández inaugurated a mega-prison that emulates the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) that has become a symbol of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s security ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Costa Rica opens a mega-prison for the criminals still running gangs from their cells
Costa Rica's $35M CACCO mega-prison opened Oct. 14, targeting organized crime leaders still running gangs from inside the country's overcrowded prisons.
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Costa Rica opens mega-prison as organized crime fight intensifies
Costa Rica inaugurated a maximum-security prison on Wednesday as it stepped up its fight against organized crime after a surge in killings in what was long one of Latin America's safest countries.
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Built on Bukele’s Blueprint: What Costa Rica’s $35M Megaprison Means for the Region’s Security Playbook
Costa Rica’s CACCO megaprison opened Oct. 14 with 5,100 beds and immediate constitutional challenges. What the Sala IV rules could decide next.
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Costa Rica’s New Maximum-Security Mega-Prison Imitating Bukele’s in El Salvador.
Costa Rica President Laura Fernández pictured below said Costa Rica needed a prison "where public authority reigns." ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Costa Rica opens El Salvador-inspired mega-prison
ALAJUELA, Costa Rica - Costa Rica opened a high-security jail on Wednesday inspired by a mega-prison in El Salvador that has become a symbol of the country’s war on gangs, widely criticized by human ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Costa Rica adopts Bukele’s penitentiary model with the inauguration of a new mega-prison
With capacity for 5,100 inmates, President Laura Fernández’s government presents the CACCO as a ‘historic milestone’ in the fight against drug trafficking ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Costa Rica's CACCO Mega-Prison Opens Wednesday — Panama Is Already Watching the Model
Costa Rica inaugurates the 5,100-bed CACCO mega-prison Oct. 14. Panama visited the facility; 640 homicides logged in 2026 so far. Anti-torture body demands a halt.
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Costa Rica completes construction of its 'megaprison' inspired by Bukele's model
The Costa Rican government announced on Monday that it will inaugurate the High-Security Prison for Organized Crime (CACCO) on Oct. 14. The "megaprison" has a capacity of 5,100 inmates and was ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Costa Rica opens mega-prison modeled on El Salvador's CECOT
Costa Rica has opened a maximum-security prison modeled on El Salvador's mega-facility, as the Central American nation moves to crack down on surging drug ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Security: Costa Rica Opens a 5,100-Inmate Mega-Prison, and a Court Challenge Follows
Costa Rica opened CACCO on Wednesday, a prison built on El Salvador's design. By Thursday a prisoners' rights association had asked the Constitutional Chamber to halt transfers into it.