Costa Rica locked up more than 120 inmates this week in a new $35million mega prison, built with the help of the Salvadoran government on the outskirts of San Jose.
The justice ministry shared images showing rows of prisoners dressed in orange jumpsuits, seated with shaved heads bowed and their hands behind their necks.
The scenes are reminiscent of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT), the mega prison where the polarising president Nayib Bukele’s government holds tens of thousands of gang members and suspected gang affiliates.
Mr Bukele has managed to reduce numbers to a historic low in El Salvador but faces accusations of
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