Sept. 2 (UPI) --Costa Rica expects to open a maximum-security prison, intended to hold 5,100 inmates, by the end of 2026, at an estimated cost of $39 million. For the design of the Center for High ...

Costa Rica has introduced new prison security rules for inmates facing extradition, cutting off physical contact during visits and requiring prison officers to use body cameras during interactions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Video has emerged showing Costa Rican prison officials catching a cat with packages of illegal drugs strapped to its body. An ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves took another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled ...

An effort in Costa Rica to end prison overcrowding by transferring 600 convicts to semi-open facilities has sparked heated debate in the country, with media and some judges fearing an ensuing crime ...

Seven candidates to become Costa Rica’s next president went behind bars to hold an unusual debate in a prison where they answered inmates’ questions about their election platforms. “I hope you feel at ...

Despite the country’s coronavirus lockdown, Costa Rica’s island of San Lucas, a former penal colony with a dark history, has been newly converted into a tourist paradise, albeit with strict pandemic ...

The sentencing of a 39 year old cabinet-maker to four and a half years of prison for sexually assaulting a woman during the daytime by touching her genitals in public has divided Costa Rica: some ...

TECOLUCA, El Salvador — Costa Rica's security minister toured El Salvador's maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review of the measures that El Salvador has taken to reduce violence ...

Guards in Costa Rica have intercepted an unusual prison drug delivery, catching a cat as it jumped over the periphery fence at night with marijuana and crack taped to its body. The black-and-white ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prisoners at the Terrorism Confinement Center (in Tecoluca, El Salvador, are ae shown in late 2023. Plans for planned the Costa ...

Video has emerged showing Costa Rican prison officials catching a cat with packages of illegal drugs strapped to its body. An officer at the Pococí prison in northeastern Costa Rica spotted the cat in ...