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March 1, 2019

New Zealand: prison drugs, contraband vary in South

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Oceania Drugs New Zealand

The latest figures for prison contraband and drug testing have revealed a mixed picture in the South.

January 7, 2019

Canada: prison drug scans for visitors potentially unreliable and keeping families apart, researcher says

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North America Drugs Social ties Canada

Ion scanners cause stress for families of prisoners, research shows.

December 23, 2018

UK: Prisons ban Christmas cards with glitter due to drugs epidemic in jails

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Europe Drugs United Kingdom

Measure in England and Wales aims to combat problem of post being sprayed with drugs.

December 14, 2018

Australia: Queensland prison guards giving inmates drugs and weapons, damning report finds

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Oceania Drugs Australia

Watchdog says systems meant to detect and deal with corruption are not working. A damning new report shows corruption is alive and well in Queensland’s prison system, with guards hooking up with inmates and supplying them with booze, drugs and even weapons.

November 19, 2018

Spain: la mayor parte de las muertes en las cárceles gallegas, vinculadas a las drogas y a los suicidios

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Europe Drugs Suicide Violence Spain

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November 4, 2018

United Kingdom: A la prison de Birmingham, la faillite d’une gestion privée

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Europe Drugs Material conditions Facilities Violence United Kingdom

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October 30, 2018

Canada: drugs in jails, ministry says it doesn't keep track of overdoses and naloxone use

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North America Drugs Canada

Ontario’s corrections ministry says it does not track the number of opioid overdoses in its jails, even though prisoners have died and staff are routinely treating inmates for overdoses.

October 9, 2018

UK: Exeter prison condemned by inspectors for violence and drug use

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Drugs Violence United Kingdom

Scathing report comes as Prison Governors Association accuses government underfunding of contributing to jail safety crisis.

August 7, 2018

Inglaterra: los presos zombies, la terrible droga Spice y abusos de todo tipo en las cárceles

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Drugs United Kingdom

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May 25, 2018

France : maladies, drogue et malnutrition, comment les conditions se dégradent dans les camps de réfugiés à Paris

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Europe Drugs Material conditions France

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April 23, 2018

USA: 1 dead and 11 treated for overdoses at Northern California prison

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Drugs United States

Suspected drug overdoses at a Northern California prison over the weekend left one inmate dead and sent 11 others for treatment, authorities said Monday.

April 9, 2018

Canada : plaidoyer contre les dérives des conditions de libération

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North America Drugs France

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March 20, 2018

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In Belarus, people are locked up to wean them off alcohol. These are strange places where time seems to have stopped after the fall of Soviet Union.

August 4, 2017

UK: prisons in crisis due to ‘perverse’ government overhaul

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Europe Drugs Overcrowding Violence United Kingdom

The president of the Prison Governors Association (PGA) has said prisons in England and Wales are in crisis due to a “perverse” government overhaul and a “toxic mix” of pressures.

July 8, 2017

Jails, justice system at breaking point as Philippine drugs war intensifies

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Asia Drugs Philippines

In a teeming prison for undertrials in the Philippines’ capital Manila, Rody Lacanilao, an inmate for 18 months, says he prays for clear weather at night.

June 28, 2017

Cambodia: Drug war fuels crowding, health concerns

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Asia Health Drugs Cambodia

With authorities expressing a desire to extend the Kingdom’s controversial drug war beyond its six-month window, observers say an outbreak of respiratory illness among prisoners in Kampong Speu’s provincial prison last week has underscored the medical pressures created by an ongoing prison overcrow…

June 27, 2017

China: 13 Chinese sentenced to death for drugs offences as thousands look on in public trial

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Asia Drugs China

Two courts in southern China’s Guangdong province sentenced 13 people to death for producing and selling drugs at a public trial in a stadium in the city of Shanwei watched by some 10,000 people, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

June 22, 2017

United States: a new war on drugs

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North America Drugs United States

Jeff Sessions wants a new war on drugs. It won’t work.

June 20, 2017

China: Around 120,000 given over five years in prison for drug crimes since 2012

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Asia Drugs China

Nearly 120,000 criminals charged with drug offences were handed sentences longer than five years by Chinese courts in the last five years, data released by the nation’s top court Tuesday shows.

June 18, 2017

Sri Lanka: Drug menace: What is going wrong?

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Drugs Sri Lanka

Department of Prisons’ statistics show that in 2015, nearly half, or 46.4 percent, of prisoners convicted were drug offenders. This means that, of the 24,086 who were sentenced, a massive 11,171 went to jail for narcotics crimes. That is the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The previous year, the per…

June 17, 2017

Philippines: CoA report shows 511% increase in inmates amid drug war

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Asia Drugs Philippines

This is a 511% increase in congestion that way exceeds the said ideal cell capacity of 20,746. According to the CoA’s annual report on the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) released on June 15, the total number of inmates was up by 30,544 as of Dec. 31, 2016 from the year before.

June 16, 2017

Australia: Queensland's prison policy is 'stupid', says former chief as he calls for drugs rethink

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Oceania Drugs Australia

Queensland has almost 8,000 prisoners – or 206 per 100,000 adult population – a rate which Hamburger said was “about a third bigger than Victoria’s, for example, and that’s just stupid”, he said. Hamburger said the rate compared badly with European countries. Sweden, for example, has a rate of 53 p…

June 14, 2017

Malaysia: some 33,500 convicts in prison because of drug abuse

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Drugs Malaysia

Some 33,500 of the 59,600 convicts in prisons in this country are because of drug offences and they represent 56 per cent of the total number of prison inmates nationwide. Director of Inmate Management of the Prison Department, SAC Nordin Muhamad said of the total, 71.3 percent of those in prison a…

June 13, 2017

New Zealand: alcohol and drug court pilot gains an extension after early results

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Drugs New Zealand

A pilot of a special court that diverts offenders with alcohol and drug dependency from prison into treatment has been extended. Justice Minister Amy Adams said initial analysis showed the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court reduced the likelihood of reoffending by about 15 per cent in the short…