Women, Drug Policy, and Incarceration: A Guide for Policy Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean
Download the GuideDownload in PortugueseThe working group has published a new guide for policymakers: “Women, Drug Policies, and Incarceration: A Guide to Policy Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean.” The guide—the first of its kind—offers a roadmap for officials and reform advocates for implementing policy changes that could benefit the thousands of women incarcerated on drug charges across the Americas.
Drug policy in Colombia has focused its efforts on pursuing and imprisoning the weak links of the drug trafficking chain: people who are poor and occupy positions of vulnerability in society. This guide makes a diagnosis of the situation of women related to drug crimes in Colombia, the impact of incarceration on their lives and their families, and develops policy recommendations to reform these punitive policies.