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| Addicted to Courts | America’s growing reliance on drug courts is an ineffective allocation of scarce state resources. Drug courts can needlessly widen the net of crimin... |
| America Latina, il carcere scoppia per le leggi sulla droga | Sembra proprio che non debbano esserci limiti ai disastri della guerra alle droghe, sulla quale ingrassa il narcotraffico con tutte le sue conseguenze... |
| America’s prisons: A catching sickness | Harsh laws for selling or possessing of drugs are a public-policy disaster. Ernest Drucker, an epidemiologist, uses the tools of his trade to examin... |
| Beneath the Underdog | The United States has exported a counter-productive and destructive model to Latin America through the drug war. This is made clear in Systems Overloa... |
| Bolivia in urgent need of a drug law reform | Almost 75 percent of the prison population in Bolivia remains in jails without a sentence. One third of the inmates are incarcerated due to the dracon... |
| Call Off the Global Drug War | In an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly importa... |
| Cause for Alarm | The new report is the first to calculate the total number of females in prisons on drug offences in Europe and Central Asia. It provides an analysis... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Argentina | Within the international drugs market, Argentina is a “trans-shipment” country for cocaine. Recent decades have seen an increase in the consumption of... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Bolivia | Bolivia’s participation in the international drug-trafficking circuit was determined by a series of factors, ranging from the ancestral tradition of g... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Brazil | The number of people imprisoned for drug offenses in Brazil has increased over the last 20 years, but this has not affected the availability or cons... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Colombia | During the 20th century, drug policies in Colombia were increasingly repressive, largely ineffective, and heavily influenced by the international lega... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Ecuador | Ecuador was never a significant center of production or traffic of illicit drugs; nor has it ever experienced the social convulsions that can result f... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Mexico | Mexico is currently undergoing one of the worst crises in its history in terms of violence and insecurity. This crisis is directly related to the stre... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Peru | Peru is a major world producer of coca leaf and its derivatives. Since the year 2000, successive Peruvian administrations have followed a drug policy ... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Uruguay | Uruguay has one of the most advanced drug policies on the continent. In Uruguay, the law does not criminalize drug use or possession of drugs for p... |
| Drugs and prisons in Argentina | Martha Ines Miravete was a stage actress in Buenos Aires. She recalls how, in 1994, a man changed her life by inviting her to participate... |
| Drugs and prisons in Bolivia | Bolivia has announced its intention to reform its drug law (Law 1008), which has been criticized for resulting in sentences that are dispr... |
| Drugs and prisons in Brazil | In Brazil, possession of drugs for personal consumption is punished with educational measures and community service, not prison. In this ... |
| Drugs bill goes to Parliament | Draft legislation that foresees the decriminalization of the possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use but the leveling of criminal c... |
| Imprisonment for drugs related offenses in Argentina | Intercambios Civil Association and theSocial Sciences School of the University of Buenos Aires launched the book “Encarcelamientos por delitos relacio... |
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