Drugs

June 9, 2019

Canada: un premier centre d'injection supervisée dans une prison canadienne

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North America Drugs Canada

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May 24, 2019

Brazil: la Fashion Week entre en prison à Sao Paulo

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South America Drugs Activities Rehabilitation Brazil

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March 9, 2019

UK: des prisons testent la reconnaissance faciale et oculaire

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Europe Drugs United Kingdom

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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.

Source — Otago Daily Times

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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.

Source — CBC

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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.

Source — The Guardian

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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.

Source — The Guardian

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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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Source — La Voz de Galicia

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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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Source — Le Parisien

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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.

Source — Ottawa Citizen

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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.

Source — The Guardian

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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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Source — Clarín Mundo

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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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Source — Les Inrockuptibles

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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.

Source — LA Times

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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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Source — Le devoir

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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. Read more

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.

Source — Le Monde

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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.

Source — Reuters

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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 overcrowding…

Source — The Phnom Penh Post

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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.

Source — South China Morning Post Society

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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.

Source — The Washington Post

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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.

Source — Global Times

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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 percentage…

Source — The Sunday Times

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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.

Source — Business World Online

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