Items tagged with prison situation
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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 ... |
| Thailand cannabis: From a war on drugs to weed curries [21.06.2022] | Thailand legalised cultivating and consuming cannabis this month, reversing a hard-line approach of long prison sentences or even the death penalty f ... |
| What Thailand’s legalization of marijuana means for Southeast Asia's war on drugs [14.06.2022] | Southeast Asia, a region of 11 countries and some 680 million people, has long been infamous for having the strictest anti-drug laws in the world. Bu ... |
| Tunisians call for the legalization of cannabis [10.04.2022] | A group of young Tunisians is calling for the establishment of a National Cannabis Bureau, and the end of the nationwide ban on cannabis. The youth g ... |
| After 30-year jail sentence for cannabis users, protesters demand decriminalization [22.02.2021] | A series of protests which began on January 15 in various cities and neighborhoods across Tunisia have largely focused on economic inequality and pol ... |
| Mexico on the brink of legalizing marijuana — But on what terms? [28.01.2021] | Mexico is on the verge of becoming the third country in the world, after Uruguay and Canada, to legally regulate cannabis for personal, adult use. Th ... |
| Cambodian official says human rights 'need to be put aside' in drug war [13.05.2020] | A Cambodian official defended an anti-drug campaign that has been decried as rife with abuses, saying human rights “need to be put aside” to fight dr ... |
| Drug decriminalisation would 'save hundreds of millions', but Queensland Premier rules it out [31.01.2020] | Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has ruled out decriminalising drugs despite a new report saying it would cut the state's record rate of incarceration a ... |
| The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (CEDD) [31.12.2019] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) brings together researchers from seven Latin American cou ... |
| 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 ... |
| Légalisation du Cannabis : Une opportunité pour la Tunisie? [17.11.2019] | Le débat sur la légalisation du cannabis a fait couler beaucoup d'encre et sa remise sur la table est loin d'être finie. La dépénalisation du cannabi ... |
| From the Philippines to Indonesia and Afghanistan, Asia’s brutal drug policies have failed [20.02.2019] | The so-called “war on drugs” has persisted without an honest assessment by governments of its effectiveness, nor its impacts, despite UN reports show ... |
| Reform of drug laws begins as bill passes first reading [17.06.2018] | The National Legislative Assembly passed by a landslide vote the three narcotics control policy bills, which are an effort by authorities to reform o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Skunk is causing misery – criminalisation isn’t working [01.03.2018] | Can Britain ever kill its worst taboo? This week’s news of the soaring prevalence of skunk, in place of weaker and less harmful herbal forms of canna ... |
| PH jail congestion rate soars to over 500% amid drug war [16.06.2017] | The Philippines' cramped jails had to accommodate more inmates in 2016 amid the government's crackdown on drugs as well as other issues, resulting in ... |
| Spice ruins lives and costs taxpayers a fortune. It doesn’t have to be this way [28.04.2017] | Spice-induced “zombie” outbreaks in New York and in Manchester have hit the headlines in the past year. Use of these new damaging and powerful forms ... |
| Brazil Supreme Court judge calls for drugs legalisation to beat gangs [11.02.2017] | A Brazilian Supreme Court justice called for the legalization of marijuana and even cocaine to undo the growing power of drug gangs behind a wave of ... |
| In Duterte’s footsteps, Hun Sen launches a drug war [09.02.2017] | Cambodia’s newly launched war on drugs is in full swing, with nearly 3,000 people arrested in the campaign’s first month of crime-busting. Authoritie ... |
| Jailed for a puff [01.02.2017] | Many Tunisian prisons are overcrowded, some at 150 percent of their capacity — and authorities say one third of the inmates are there only for mariju ... |
| '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, ... |
| Ten years of drug policy failure in Brazil [27.08.2016] | Ten years ago this week, Brazil passed a law intended to distinguish dangerous drug traffickers from simple drug users. By replacing jail sentences f ... |
| 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 ... |
| Soaring prison population prompts Thailand to re-think 'lost' drug war [17.07.2016] | More than a decade after Thailand declared a "war on drugs", the country is admitting defeat. As the prison population soars, Justice Minister Paiboo ... |
| Une agence de régulation pour le cannabis? [01.04.2016] | Quelle différence entre un joint et une cigarette normale? Rien ou presque, selon les partisans de la régulation du cannabis. Dans le cas du tabac, i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Building on Progress [14.08.2015] | Bolivia has seen a decline in coca cultivation for the fourth consecutive year, according to data released today by the United Nations Office on Drug ... |
| The painful price of aging in prison [01.05.2015] | In recent years, federal sentencing guidelines have been revised, resulting in less severe prison terms for low-level drug offenders. But tens of tho ... |
| Plan to send Russian drug addicts to labor camps slammed by experts [14.04.2015] | Russia's Federal Drug Control Service's proposal to revive Soviet-era work camps in order to treat drug addicts was met with skepticism by leading he ... |
| Rights group: Tough laws wrong response to Tunisia's drugs problem [12.02.2015] | Tunisia's tough law on cannabis use, laying down jail terms of at least one year, is "destroying lives" and overcrowding prisons, according to a grou ... |
| The United States rethinks draconian drug sentencing policies [27.01.2015] | Across the Americas, an unprecedented debate on drug policy reform is underway. While a regional consensus on what form those reforms should take rem ... |
| Guatemala may weigh softer drug punishments in liberalization push [14.10.2014] | Guatemala will weigh easing punishments for minor narcotics-related offenses as part of a push to liberalize drug policy and explore regulating produ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Costa Rica: A new model for prison standards in Latin America? [28.08.2014] | Prison overcrowding is a widespread problem in Latin America, primarily because of harsh drug-sentencing laws and inadequate budgets, but Costa Rica ... |
| Nonsense to arrest for a spliff [11.08.2014] | The attorney general, Patrick Atkinson, must move with dispatch to determine, as the justice minister, Mark Golding, suggests, whether the police can ... |
| Ganja growers demand amnesty on weed arrests [09.08.2014] | A call has been made for the government to declare an amnesty on all arrests for the possession of under one pound of marijuana. The plea from the Ga ... |
| Ecuador set to release minor drug offenders in move away from harsh laws [05.08.2014] | Around 2,000 inmates convicted of low-level drug offences could be released in Ecuador under a new criminal code, as countries across the Americas sl ... |
| The injustice of marijuana arrests [27.07.2014] | America’s four-decade war on drugs is responsible for many casualties, but the criminalization of marijuana has been perhaps the most destructive par ... |
| Reimagining Drug Policy in the Americas [27.06.2014] | Latin America is now at the vanguard of international efforts to promote drug policy reform: Bolivia has rewritten its constitution to recognize the ... |
| Prisoners sentenced with unconstitutional norms have the right to be resentenced [04.06.2014] | In February, the Italian Constitutional Court ruled that most of the 2006 drug law norms were unconstitutional. Following this pronouncement, at the ... |
| 'Thousands of inmates' can soon be released under drug law [28.05.2014] | A new decree that overhauls Italy's drugs laws paves the way for releasing "thousands of convicted smalltime drug dealers from prison". The move foll ... |
| Italy's strict drug law goes up in smoke [16.02.2014] | On February 12, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Fini-Giovanardi law setting out penalties related to the sale and possession of illegal drugs ... |
| Italy relaxes cannabis penalties [12.02.2014] | Italy's Constitutional Court struck down an anti-drug law from 2006 that imposed tough sentencing for the sale and possession of cannabis, putting it ... |
| 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 ... |
| Drug Policies and Women's Rights on UN Agenda [16.10.2013] | At the 56th Session of the UN Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) this week in Geneva, the UN gender expert ... |
| Justice Dept. seeks to curtail stiff drug sentences [13.08.2013] | In a major shift in criminal justice policy, the Obama administration will move to ease overcrowding in federal prisons by ordering prosecutors to om ... |
| What Long-Term Recovery Looks Like From Prison [17.06.2013] | I am near the end of a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. I’m currently spending my 20th consecutive summe ... |
| Words Behind Walls [13.06.2013] | Well, let me start by saying that I appreciate the opportunity to share some of my thoughts and feelings with you. I hope maybe in some way, this giv ... |
| In Mexico, guilty till proven innocent [07.06.2013] | The case of Yanira Maldonado brought international attention once more to the innocent people getting caught in Mexico's drug war. Maldonado, a U.S. ... |
| The most embarrassing graph in American drug policy [28.05.2013] | Law enforcement strategies have utterly failed to even maintain street prices of the key illicit substances. This figure shows that street drug price ... |
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