Costa Rica has transferred its first 123 inmates to CACCO, a new maximum-security prison in Alajuela built with El Salvador’s help. Designed to hold 5,100 people, it is part of President Laura Fernández’s crackdown on organized crime. 

Images show inmates with shaved heads, orange uniforms and shackles. Lawyers have questioned their treatment, while officials defend the measures as necessary for hygiene and security.

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