The Ministry of Justice will have to transfer 1,262 inmates from San Sebastián Prison before November 2017.
The Sentence Enforcement Court set a deadline of 18 months to comply with the closing down of the Institutional Care Center (CAI) in San José. In that place there are 165 Convicts and 1,103 suspects.
According to the Ministry, prisoners will be transferred to other prisons in the country, especially to 4 prisons that are not critically overcrowded.
The decision was made at a time when the Ministry is looking for solutions to prison overcrowding, but it was clarified that they are not going to liberate any prisoner; they will just transfer them from one prison to others where there is space.
For cases of people in remand, it will be expected the deadlines to come to an end.