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Items tagged with prison situation

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The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (CEDD) [01-01-20]   The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) brings together researchers from seven Latin American c...
What Long-Term Recovery Looks Like From Prison [17-06-13] 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 summer...
Words Behind Walls [13-06-13] 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 give...
The most embarrassing graph in American drug policy [29-05-13] Law enforcement strategies have utterly failed to even maintain street prices of the key illicit substances. This figure shows that street drug prices...
Breaking the taboo about drugs [18-05-13] 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 p...
Class A drugs policy failing, say prison governors [25-04-13] "The current war on drugs is successful in creating further victims of acquisitive crime, increasing cost to the taxpayer to accommodate a higher...
Is the war on drugs nearing an end? [08-04-13] For four decades, libertarians, civil rights activists and drug treatment experts have stood outside of the political mainstream in arguing that the w...
Drugs in Brazil: Cracking up [06-04-13] 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 districts...
Brad Pitt: America's war on drugs is a charade, and a failure [31-03-13] "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...
UN concerned by arbitrary arrests in Brazil [28-03-13] The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention voiced concern about the rising number of arbitrary arrests in Brazil, which has one of the hi...
The unintended negative consequences of the 'war on drugs' [01-03-13] 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 [15-01-13] 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 Medica...
Racism's Hidden History in the War on Drugs [03-01-13] 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. Marijua...
Will Obama's second term see an end to the failed 'war on drugs'? [16-11-12] 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 ...
Disproportionate penalties for drug offenses in Mexico [12-11-12] 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 cri...
Victims of the Latin American war on drugs make the case for reform [10-11-12] 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 Of...
Could drug decriminalization save Brazil’s slums? [24-10-12] 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 a...
Drugs and Prisons in Uruguay [17-07-12] In Uruguay, the consumption of drugs, including marijuana, is not punishable with prison time. Even so, the cultivation of marijuana for personal co...
A breakthrough in the making? [25-06-12] 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...
Obama Hasn’t Reformed Criminal Justice—Could Romney Do Better? [13-04-12] 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 pr...
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