A new model provides a step toward finally making the presumption of innocence—and the humane treatment that goes along with it—a reality in Mexico.
Posts Tagged “Mexico”
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Posted in: Justice, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: Ana Aguilar, juvenile justice, Mexico, pretrial detention
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An eye-opening documentary follows two attorneys as they attempt to prove the innocence of a young man wrongfully accused of murder, taking viewers behind the scenes into Mexico’s prisons and courtrooms.
Posted in: Justice, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: criminal justice reform, Denise Tomasini-Joshi, Mexico, pretrial detention
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Because reform does away with some of the mainstays of Mexico’s inefficient and abusive law enforcement machinery, some politicians are beginning to blame it for a worrisome but decade-old rise in crime.
Posted in: Justice, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: Ciudad Juarez, crime, criminal justice, Felipe Calderón, Fernando Gómez Mont, Mexico, Robert Varenik