Argentina
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Argentina: over five hundred prisoners on hunger strike call for justice
Five hundred prisoners, from Villa Urquiza prison (province of Tucumán), decided to go on a hunger strike on August 23. They were joined, on August 30, by 54 new strikers from Concepción prison, located in the south of the province.Argentina packs prisons with drug offenders
The number of prison inmates in Argentina convicted for drug offenses has more than doubled in a decade, a red flag for the country’s growing role in the drug trade and the risk of future prison overcrowding. The prison population sentenced on the basis of Law 23.737, Argentina’s anti-drug legislat…