Women in Mexico suffer abhorrent human rights abuses in unlawful detention centres, which operate in near-total impunity under the guise of treating drug dependence.

The publication addresses the drugs and development nexus from a range of critical viewpoints, highlighting gaps and contradictions, and exploring opportunities for enhanced linkages between drug policy and development programming.

This report highlights opportunities and pitfalls in the implementation of house arrest as an alternative to incarceration.

This powerful account of women's life stories sheds light on the shared patterns of abuse that women who use drugs experience throughout their lives, and most violently, through their time in treatment and rehabilitation centres in Mexico.

The report “Women, drug offences and penitentiary systems in Latin America” analyses the structural situation of women’s involvement in drug offences and suggests a set of public policies in order to address and warranty their rights.