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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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Europe Health Mental health Drugs Material conditions Belarus

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…

June 7, 2017

United States: how drug courts are falling short

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North America Justice Drugs United States

Local authorities revived Smith, arrested him, and then gave him two options: he could go to jail or he could go into treatment. Smith chose treatment—or at least that’s what he thought. What Smith chose, more specifically, was to go through the alternative sentencing program known as drug court, w…

April 25, 2017

Tunisia parliament votes to ease harsh drug law

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Justice Drugs Tunisia

Tunisian parliament votes to ease country’s harsh drug laws aftercalls from rights groups, civil society for broader reform of ‘Law 52’.

April 25, 2017

Tunisia parliament votes to ease harsh drug law

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Drugs Tunisia

Tunisian parliament votes to ease country’s harsh drug laws aftercalls from rights groups, civil society for broader reform of ‘Law 52’.

April 24, 2017

Iran abolishes death penalty for drug trafficking

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Middle East Drugs Iran

Iran’s Parliament has abolished the death penalty for dealers, distributors and traffickers of narcotic drugs, replacing this punishment with lifelong imprisonment.

April 18, 2017

UNODC to send drug policy advisor to work with Philippine gov't

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Asia Drugs Philippines

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, or UNODC, announced on Monday (17/04) that it will soon post a dedicated drug policy adviser to work with the Philippine government to enact alternative approaches in combating rising narcotics use in the country.

April 7, 2017

Philippines edges closer to death penalty return for serious drug offences

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Asia Drugs Philippines

Philippine lower house lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the re-imposition of capital punishment for serious drug offences on Tuesday, clearing another hurdle in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drive to use death as a deterrent against crime.

March 31, 2017

France : "salles de shoot" en prison, le projet abandonné in extremis

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Europe Health Drugs France

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March 23, 2017

Prison Insider's editorial — March 2017

South America Health Drugs

The Americas: drug trafficking routes and pathways to prison

February 19, 2017

Mexico: after drug war contracting boom, Mexican prisons stand idle

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Central America and the Caribbean Drugs Mexico

Guards at one of Mexico’s high-security prisons have to worry much more about criminals breaking in than busting out. Despite a price tag of more than 2 billion pesos ($98 million), the Papantla prison built for about 2,000 men in the eastern state of Veracruz does not have a single inmate, and onl…

February 14, 2017

L'état des prisons britanniques

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Europe Drugs United Kingdom

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February 9, 2017

Colombia : Colombia's Mirror: War and Drug Trafficking in the Prison System

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South America Drugs Colombia

Colombia’s prisons are a reflection of the multiple conflicts that have plagued the country for the last half-century. Paramilitaries, guerrillas and drug trafficking groups have vied for control of the jails where they can continue to manage their operations on the outside. Instead of corralling t…