Items tagged with prison situation
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| 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 c... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 distric... |
| 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... |
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