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These videos feature people who have spent years in prison enduring harsh sentences that are disproportionate to the crimes they committed. The videos are part of a TNI/WOLA study investigating the prison systems of eight countries in Latin America. The people in the videos are featured because they represent the rarely revealed human side of the war on drugs. These personal stories illustrate the unjust impact of current drug laws.
Ecuador has one of the harshest drug laws in the hemisphere. A non-violent drug offender can receive the same sentence, sometimes even stiffer, than a murderer.
Over the years, the Mexican government has adopted increasingly heavy prison sentences and militarized drug policies to confront drug trafficking. The result has been an increase of vulnerable populations in Mexico’s prisons, but no impact on the drug trade or violence.
Year after year international organisations condemn Brazil for the inhuman conditions in it's prisons. For the first time now critics come from within Brazil's institutions. The president of the Supreme Court called the prisons a 'shame' and a 'crime against the people'. Half of Brazil's 500.000 prisoners await their process in overcrowded police cells. A report by Marjon van Royen and Joseph Carter.
http://www.druglawreform.info/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=category&cid=98&Itemid=35&lang=en
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