International News
Presentation: Harm Reduction and Drug Policy in Western European Prisons
11th December 2003
Presentation by Prof. Heino Stover of the University of Bremen, Germany at the public forum "HIV, Hepatitis C, and Harm Reduction in Prisons: Evidence, Best Practice and Human Rights", sponsored by the Irish Penal Reform Trust and Merchant's Quay Ireland.
Discussion Paper: Prison-Based Syringe Exchange Programs (PSE Programs)
10th December 2003
Reviews the evidence of HIV, Hepatitis C and injecting drug use in Australian prisons, and outlines a series of concrete proposals and steps for implementing prison needle exchange in Australia. Published by the Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League.
Justice Reinvestment: To invest in public safety by reallocating justice dollars to refinance education, housing, healthcare and jobs.
28th November 2003
By Susan B. Tucker and Eric Cardora. Part of the "Ideas for an Open Society" series published by the Open Society Institute (www.soros.org).
European Sourcebook on Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics - 2003
18th November 2003
Exhaustive resource on crime and criminal justice statistics in Council of Europe states.
Justice Reinvestment: To Invest in Public Safety by Reallocating Justice Dollars to Refinance Education, Housing, Healthcare, and Jobs
13th November 2003
More than $54 billion is spent annually on prisons in the United States, much of it directed toward incarcerating people for non-violent drug offenses with little or no hope of access to rehabilitation services. Susan Tucker and Eric Cadora argue that the US's dependence on mass incarceration reflects an approach to imprisonment that actually sacrifices public safety.
International comparisons of criminal justice statistics 2001
24th October 2003
This bulletin brings together statistical information on criminal justice collected by the Home Office and the Council of Europe. The data\ covers all the European Union Member States, the EU accession countries and selected other countries.
New Study by the Justice Policy Institute Reveals Startling Racial Disparities in Maryland Prisons: African Americans Make Up 90% of Incarcerated Drug Offenders
23rd October 2003
Among its findings, the report showed that while African Americans make up only 28% of Maryland's population, African Americans make up 68% of drug arrests, and 90% of people incarcerated for drug offenses.
Prison Privatisation in the United Kingdom by Stephen Nathan
22nd October 2003
from Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization and Human Rights by Andrew Coyle, Allison Campbell, Rodney Neufeld, eds. Clarity Press/Z Books, 2003.
Prison-based syringe exchange programmes: a review of international research and development
16th October 2003
By Kate Dolan, Scott Rutter and Alex D. Wodak. National Drug and Alcohol Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. © 2003 Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and Other Drugs
U.S. Justice Calls Mandatory Sentences `Bad Policy'
22nd September 2003
Mandatory minimum sentences passed by Congress are "bad policy," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said yesterday. From the Associated Press.
