# Costa Rica moves first inmates into new organised crime prison

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/inside-costa-ricas-new-mega-prison-based-on-el-salvadors-infamous-jail-as-its-first-inmates-arrive/
- Published: 2026-11-01T12:13:07+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-01T12:33:02+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16251677/Inside-Costa-Rica-mega-prison.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Americas, Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- Costa Rica’s new $35 million prison has received its first 120-plus inmates.
- CACCO has room for 5,100 prisoners, about a fifth of the national total.
- The facility reflects a tougher response to rising organised crime and violence.

## Summary

Costa Rica has transferred more than 120 inmates to a new $35 million maximum-security prison near San José, developed with help from El Salvador. The facility marks a tougher approach to organised crime as the country responds to rising violence and a record number of homicides in 2023.

Called the High Containment Center against Organized Crime, CACCO can hold 5,100 people, around a fifth of Costa Rica’s prison population. Its images of prisoners in orange uniforms recall El Salvador’s CECOT, whose mass detentions under a state of emergency have drawn human rights abuse allegations; Costa Rican officials say the new prison will also ease overcrowding.

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