Items tagged with incarceration
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| How drug “decriminalization” fueled Brazil’s mass incarceration crisis [23.03.2023] | At first glance, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s cabinet looks very different from that of predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. It comprises m ... |
| Radical relook at drug policies puts human rights into equation [09.11.2021] | A “radically innovative” new analysis of global drug policies has laid bare the full impact repressive drug laws and their implementation have on mil ... |
| Opioids, pot and criminal justice reform helped undermine this decade's War on Drugs [29.12.2019] | This much we know: Americans like to do drugs. That might explain why a prescient headline in the satirical publication The Onion stands as one of th ... |
| UN Common Position on drug policy [01.12.2019] | In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy thr ... |
| History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren’t [30.01.2019] | Drug-related offences take up a lot of the resources within Australia’s criminal justice system. In 2016–17 law enforcement made 113,533 illicit drug ... |
| Connecting the dots... [26.10.2018] | How can we resolve the tensions between current drug control policies and states’ human rights obligations? The international human rights framework ... |
| Indonesia criminal code overhaul a step backwards for drug policy [30.03.2018] | As more countries move away from drug prohibition, Indonesia is about to step up its efforts to defend it. Proposed revisions to the country's crimin ... |
| Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? [05.12.2017] | In 2001, Portugal became the first country to decriminalise the possession and consumption of all illicit substances. Rather than being arrested, tho ... |
| Guiding Drug Law Reform in Myanmar [28.11.2017] | A draft bill amending Myanmar 1993 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law was published in newspapers in March 2017 for public consultation. ... |
| Brazil must legalise drugs – its existing policy just destroys lives [15.11.2017] | The war raging in Rocinha, Latin America’s largest favela, has already been lost. Rooted in a dispute between gangs for control of drug trafficking, ... |
| Oregon bill decriminalizes possession of heroin, cocaine and other drugs [11.07.2017] | The Oregon legislature passed a bill that reclassifies possession of several drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor, reducing the punishments and expan ... |
| Marijuana legalization must include justice reform [31.01.2017] | Across the US, we routinely take a pledge that ends in “with liberty and justice for all.” Yet that fundamental promise has been broken in six of the ... |
| Found in the dark [20.10.2016] | Some 400 people were charged with being “found in the dark” in Yangon, Myanmar in the first five months of 2015 alone. The charge carries a prison te ... |
| Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes — combined [12.10.2016] | On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 people sit behind bars on simple drug-possession charges, according to a report released by t ... |
| 'Found in the Dark' [14.09.2016] | To address its serious drug use problems, Myanmar should change its drug policy towards a harm reduction approach. Instead of a repressive approach, ... |
| The dark side of Duterte's deadly but popular drugs war [01.08.2016] | When the image of Jennelyn Olaires weeping as she cradled the body of her slain husband went viral in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte call ... |
| Heroin, survivor of War on Drugs, returns with new face [21.11.2015] | United States military operations in Afghanistan, now in their 15th year, are routinely described as America’s longest war. For overseas combat, that ... |
| Latin America’s crackdown on drugs defies its progressive rhetoric [12.11.2015] | “We were having dinner—my daughter, grandchild, and me,” says Ramona, a 67-year-old Mexican woman who is serving a sentence of four-and-a-half years ... |
| Surge in imprisonment for drug offenses raises questions over decriminalization law [11.11.2015] | A report by the Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho - CEDD), reveals that the number of people imprisone ... |
| People deprived of their liberty for drug offenses: The social costs of drug policy [02.11.2015] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) released a series of new studies showing that despite the ... |
| Drug sentences rise, while time served for other crimes falls [26.08.2015] | A Pew study shows that sentences for Americans convicted of federal drug crimes rose 36% — an average of 20 months — in 30 years, while sentences for ... |
| Drug policy and incarceration in São Paulo, Brazil [14.06.2015] | This briefing paper analyses the impact of drug policy on incarceration in São Paulo (Brazil), based on information collected among 1,040 people caug ... |
| Women Behind Bars [19.05.2015] | Across Latin America, the effects of disproportionate punishment for low-level, non-violent drug offenses are particularly severe for women. To shed ... |
| Technical Report on Alternatives to Incarceration for Drug-Related Offenses [22.04.2015] | Convinced that responses to the drug problem should be comprehensive, centering on public health and human rights perspectives, the Government of Col ... |
| US president cautions against hopes of ganja legalisation [10.04.2015] | President Barack Obama cautioned persons who have hopes of marijuana being legalised, as he explained the difference between legalisation and decrimi ... |
| Another UN agency savages the drug war [16.03.2015] | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN agency charged with developing strategies to reduce global poverty, has strongly criticised c ... |
| On the death penalty for drugs [02.03.2015] | The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), released today, calls upon States that ‘continue to impose the death penalty f ... |
| Two headlines perfectly sum up everything wrong with American drug policy [02.03.2015] | Two stories published last week perfectly sum up the state of American drug policy. On Friday, Colorado released its first annual report on the state ... |
| Ecuador is freeing thousands of drug mules [06.10.2014] | In Latin America’s latest challenge to Washington’s “war on drugs,” Ecuador has quietly begun releasing thousands of convicted cocaine smugglers. The ... |
| OAS chief urges new approach to failed ‘war on drugs’ [12.09.2014] | With the Organization of American States due to hold a special general assembly in Guatemala on illicit drugs in less than a week, OAS Secretary Gene ... |
| Mexico City could be home to the most important marijuana decriminalization effort yet [17.02.2014] | Lawmakers in Mexico's national legislature and Mexico City's Legislative Assembly introduced twin bills to overhaul the country's drug possession and ... |
| US Attorney General Holder rejects mass incarceration, 'one-size-fits all' security policies [21.11.2013] | Speaking at a meeting of the hemisphere's security ministers in Medellin, United States Attorney General Eric Holder touted the Obama administration' ... |
| Sentenced to a slow death [15.11.2013] | If this were happening in any other country, Americans would be aghast. A sentence of life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for trying t ... |
| Just how “new” is the 2012 National Drug Control Strategy? [07.05.2012] | Some have hailed the Obama administration’s 2012 National Drug Control Strategy as a revolutionary shift toward a public health approach to the natio ... |
| Cause for Alarm [04.04.2012] | The new report is the first to calculate the total number of females in prisons on drug offences in Europe and Central Asia. It provides an analysis ... |
| New York police officers defy order to cut marijuana arrests [29.03.2012] | Police officers in New York are "manufacturing" criminal offenses by forcing people with small amounts of marijuana to reveal their drugs, according ... |
| Drug Policy in the Andes [15.12.2011] | Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs," ma ... |
| Russia defies growing consensus with declaration of 'Total War on Drugs' [08.06.2011] | "Sending more people to prison will not reduce drug addiction or improve public health," said Anya Sarang, president of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, ... |
| Drug War Anniversary a Time for Reflection and Action [11.02.2011] | Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty years ... |
| The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] | The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ... |
| Thematic Briefings on Human Rights and Drug Policy [28.10.2010] | In many countries around the world, drug control efforts result in serious human rights abuses: torture and ill treatment by police, mass incarcerati ... |
| Drug Law Reform: Lessons from the New Zealand Experience [19.08.2010] | In 2007, the Government of New Zealand entrusted an independent agency, the National Law Commission, to review the country’s drug law. The Commission ... |
| The Human Toll of the Drug War: A Pending Issue [10.08.2010] | Analia Silva, an Afro-Ecuadorian woman in her late 40s, says that getting a job in Ecuador was really difficult for her because she did not know how ... |
| Drug Laws and Prison in Ecuador [12.07.2010] | Ecuador has one of the harshest drug laws in the hemisphere. A non-violent drug offender can receive the same sentence, sometimes even stiffer, than ... |
| Drug Laws and Prison in Mexico [02.07.2010] | Over the years, the Mexican government has adopted increasingly heavy prison sentences and militarized drug policies to confront drug trafficking. Th ... |
| The Human Face [02.07.2010] | The human toll of unjust drug policies often goes unseen and unacknowledged; often buried in statistics and official reports. That is why the Transna ... |
| IDPC Drug Policy Guide [01.03.2010] | This is the second edition of the IDPC Drug Policy Guide aimed at national government policy makers. This publication is a collaborative effort by a ... |
| Legislative Innovation in Drug Policy [01.11.2009] | This briefing summarizes good practices in legislative reforms around the world, representing steps away from a repressive zero-tolerance model towar ... |
| Mexico: The Law Against Small-Scale Drug Dealing [01.10.2009] | In August 2009, Mexico adopted a new law against small-scale drug dealing, which introduces some significant advances in key subjects, such as the re ... |
| Drug Policy Reform in Practice [01.07.2009] | The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the ... |
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