Prison overcrowding in Latin America – is it caused by over-use of pre-trial detention? (Short film)

Ten-country prisons project
Expert Insight
11 Jun 2021
Isabel Roby and Hugo Leonardo

A discussion about rights under threat and the consequences for women, people of colour, and marginalised groups, with Isabel Roby, legal and policy officer, Fair Trials (Latin America) and Hugo Leonardo, president of the Brazilian defence lawyers’ network, Instituto de Defesa do Direito de Defesa.

 

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