Items tagged with prison situation
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| Breaking the taboo about drugs [17.05.2013] | After more than four decades of a failed war on drugs, calls for a change in strategy are growing louder by the day. In Latin America, the debate is ... |
| Class A drugs policy failing, say prison governors [24.04.2013] | "The current war on drugs is successful in creating further victims of acquisitive crime, increasing cost to the taxpayer to accommodate a higher pri ... |
| Is the war on drugs nearing an end? [07.04.2013] | For four decades, libertarians, civil rights activists and drug treatment experts have stood outside of the political mainstream in arguing that the ... |
| Drugs in Brazil: Cracking up [05.04.2013] | São Paulo’s Cracolândia was Brazil’s first and is still its biggest. It is home to 2,000 addicts. But most Brazilian cities now have similar district ... |
| Brad Pitt: America's war on drugs is a charade, and a failure [31.03.2013] | "Since declaring a war on drugs 40 years ago, the United States has spent more than a trillion dollars, arrested more than 45 million people, and rac ... |
| UN concerned by arbitrary arrests in Brazil [27.03.2013] | The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention voiced concern about the rising number of arbitrary arrests in Brazil, which has one of the h ... |
| The unintended negative consequences of the 'war on drugs' [28.02.2013] | Criminalisation of drug users, excessive levels of imprisonment, and punitive sentencing practices, including mandatory sentencing, the death penalty ... |
| Doctors say UK drug policy should focus more on health [15.01.2013] | Although illicit drug use has been declining in the UK, long-term problem drug use and drug-related deaths are not decreasing, says the British Medic ... |
| Racism's hidden history in the war on drugs [02.01.2013] | The first anti-drug law in the US was a local law in San Francisco passed in 1875, outlawing the smoking of opium and directed at the Chinese. Mariju ... |
| Will Obama's second term see an end to the failed 'war on drugs'? [16.11.2012] | One of the more surprising results of last week's election was the decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize marijuana for adul ... |
| Disproportionate penalties for drug offenses in Mexico [11.11.2012] | The story of the Mexican drug war has generally focused on the violence perpetrated by drug cartels and the apparent inability to bring so many crimi ... |
| Victims of the Latin American war on drugs make the case for reform [09.11.2012] | Latin American drug policies have made no dent in the drug trade; instead they have taken a tremendous toll on human lives. In 2009, the Washington O ... |
| Could drug decriminalization save Brazil’s slums? [24.10.2012] | Brazil has been struggling with drug violence for years. The problem got so bad that the country passed a law in 2006 to distinguish between dealers ... |
| Drugs and Prisons in Uruguay [17.07.2012] | In Uruguay, the consumption of drugs, including marijuana, is not punishable with prison time. Even so, the cultivation of marijuana for personal con ... |
| A breakthrough in the making? [25.06.2012] | Remarkable drug policy developments are taking place in Latin America. This is not only at the level of political debate, but is also reflected in ac ... |
| Latin America's fatal prison problem [14.05.2012] | Prison riots in Venezuela. Jailbreaks in Mexico. Prison fires in Honduras. Latin America is displaying violent cases of the ails of its prison system ... |
| Obama Hasn’t Reformed Criminal Justice—Could Romney Do Better? [12.04.2012] | Whose website laments that in the United States today we have “more than one million nonviolent offenders fill the nation’s prisons,” and sings the p ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sex and drugs and private cells [28.03.2012] | A deadly riot in Mexico and an inferno in Honduras have turned the searchlight on conditions in Latin America's overcrowded and anarchic prisons. Of ... |
| Pills and progress [11.02.2012] | On a recent evening, some 50 people turned up for their weekly reckoning at Judge Joel Bennett’s drug court in Austin, Texas. Those who had had a goo ... |
| South American prison deaths tied to overcrowding, official says [07.02.2012] | Violence at prisons in South America, where at least eight inmates were killed in recent weeks, remains tied to alarmingly shoddy conditions and ramp ... |
| 'Soft drug' legalization law may be withdrawn [02.02.2012] | Greece may withdraw a bill allowing the possession of small amounts of 'soft' drugs for personal use because of opposition from two parties that supp ... |
| Drugs bill goes to Parliament [09.01.2012] | Draft legislation that foresees the decriminalization of the possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use but the leveling of criminal ch ... |
| America’s prisons: A catching sickness [03.09.2011] | Harsh laws for selling or possessing of drugs are a public-policy disaster. Ernest Drucker, an epidemiologist, uses the tools of his trade to examine ... |
| Imprisonment for drugs related offenses in Argentina [29.08.2011] | Intercambios Civil Association and the Social Sciences School of the University of Buenos Aires launched the book “Encarcelamientos por delitos relac ... |
| Beneath the underdog [01.07.2011] | The United States has exported a counter-productive and destructive model to Latin America through the drug war. This is made clear in Systems Overlo ... |
| Call Off the Global Drug War [16.06.2011] | In an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly importa ... |
| Poland Inches Closer to Evidence-Based Drug Policy [07.04.2011] | Ten years after introducing one of Europe's most draconian drug laws, the Polish Parliament has voted to amend it, in an effort to draw a greater dis ... |
| Addicted to Courts [22.03.2011] | America’s growing reliance on drug courts is an ineffective allocation of scarce state resources. Drug courts can needlessly widen the net of crimina ... |
| America Latina, il carcere scoppia per le leggi sulla droga [13.12.2010] | Sembra proprio che non debbano esserci limiti ai disastri della guerra alle droghe, sulla quale ingrassa il narcotraffico con tutte le sue conseguenz ... |
| Latin America drug laws 'worsen prison overcrowding' [10.12.2010] | Drug laws in eight Latin American countries have exacerbated their prison overcrowding problems and failed to curb trafficking, a study says. The Tra ... |
| Study reveals alarming pattern in imprisonment for drug crimes in Latin America [09.12.2010] | A comparative study on the impact of drug policies on the prison systems of eight Latin American countries – Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ec ... |
| Study reveals alarming pattern in imprisonment for drug crimes in Latin America [09.12.2010] | A comparative study on the impact of drug policies on the prison systems of eight Latin American countries – Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ec ... |
| Systems Overload [09.12.2010] | Study reveals alarming pattern in imprisonment for drug crimes in Latin America The weight of the law falls on the most vulnerable individuals, overc ... |
| Drugs and prisons in Bolivia [09.12.2010] | Bolivia has announced its intention to reform its drug law (Law 1008), which has been criticized for resulting in sentences that are disproportionate ... |
| Drugs and prisons in Brazil [09.12.2010] | In Brazil, possession of drugs for personal consumption is punished with educational measures and community service, not prison. In this video, a you ... |
| Drugs and prisons in Argentina [09.12.2010] | Martha Ines Miravete was a stage actress in Buenos Aires. She recalls how, in 1994, a man changed her life by inviting her to participate in a video ... |
| Systems Overload: Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America [09.12.2010] | An unprecedented one-year comparative study of the drug laws and prison systems in eight Latin American countries – Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colom ... |
| The Case of Bolivia [08.12.2010] | The Bolivia chapter is based on a survey of 130 prisoners in the San Pedro men’s prison in the city of La Paz, supplemented by other official data. T ... |
| The Case of Brazil [08.12.2010] | The number of people imprisoned for drug offenses in Brazil has increased over the last 20 years, but this has not affected the availability or consu ... |
| The Case of Colombia [08.12.2010] | In Colombia, most of the people incarcerated for drug-related crime are merely small-scale participants in the drug trafficking networks, reveals the ... |
| The Case of Ecuador [08.12.2010] | Ecuador has one of the most severe and unfair drug laws of all the countries included in Systems Overload: Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America, a ... |
| The Case of Mexico [08.12.2010] | Mexico’s security crisis’ most evident toll is the unacceptable level of violence linked to drug trafficking. However, a report published today by th ... |
| The Case of Peru [08.12.2010] | In Peru, the law on drugs does not punish drug use or drug possession for personal use by imprisonment. Nonetheless, as the Peru chapter of the study ... |
| The Case of Uruguay [08.12.2010] | Uruguay has one of the most advanced drug policies on the continent. In Uruguay, the law does not criminalize drug use or possession of drugs for per ... |
| The Case of Argentina [08.12.2010] | Argentina is a “transit” country within the international drug market. The laws designed to prosecute drug crimes have failed to reduce the scale of ... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Peru [07.12.2010] | Peru is a major world producer of coca leaf and its derivatives. Since the year 2000, successive Peruvian administrations have followed a drug policy ... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Uruguay [07.12.2010] | Uruguay has one of the most advanced drug policies on the continent. In Uruguay, the law does not criminalize drug use or possession of drugs for per ... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Bolivia [03.12.2010] | Bolivia’s participation in the international drug-trafficking circuit was determined by a series of factors, ranging from the ancestral tradition of ... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Mexico [03.12.2010] | Mexico is currently undergoing one of the worst crises in its history in terms of violence and insecurity. This crisis is directly related to the str ... |
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