Drugs and Human Rights
Prisons, Detention and Drug Policy
Punitive drug policy has led to over incarceration and prison overcrowding globally. It has driven involuntary treatment and detention of people who use drugs.
Our work on prisons, detention and drug policy sheds light on the harms of incarceration in order to advocate for the rights of people in prisons and those who are detained in other settings.
>2 MILLION
people incarcerated for drug offences globally
>500,000
people in drug detention centres in Asia
191
countries
criminalise drug use and possession
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