Costa Rica plans to expand its maximum-security capacity from 80 to 1,000 inmates and begin construction of a $35 million ...

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has taken another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum se ...

The director of the Americas Division of the organization analyzes the first months of the Trump administration and says she ...

With the announcement Friday during a visit to the Reforma prison, Chaves was channeling El Salvador President Nayib Bukele who he recognized last year with Costa Rica’s highest diplomatic honor ...