Essay On Overcrowding

Previous assessment

From a humanitarian point of view, the different causes of overcrowding are usually harmful of many of the basic and human rights of the detainees. It’s necessary to have a global and integrated perspective of the interventions available in this area, never forgetting the humanitarian rights. Fighting overcrowding is, overall, a political decision and depends on political will. First, we need to gain the support of political actors, then the rest of the society, as to make the changes sustainable and permanent. That allows us to break cycles reproduction of the overcrowding causes. It is vital do maintain the public support for this to happen. Evidence-based policies are an important tool to the strategies we’ve put

Prison authorities must address these issues. Medium term strategies

Towards medium term, it is important to improve cooperation mechanisms between criminal justice agencies, eliminating delays in procedures, creating quicker and better case management; policy makers and criminal justice institutions The simplification and acceleration of criminal justice processes requires reviewing procedures, the reinforcement of means and modernization of procedures. Improving access to legal aid is fundamental, providing aid to legal access though lawyers organizations, NGO’s and universities. It is also required to introduce measures to reduce detention duration. Improving prison capacity in an articulate strategy with different tendencies defined by our planned intervention.

Medium to long-term strategies

In the long run, we should reduce pre-trial detention. For this we’ll require a set of legislative and practical measures, such as fixation of shorter detaining periods and creating alternatives to prison. We need to involve policy makers, criminal justice authorities and national research

There is also a fundamental necessity of creating of a strategy for communication with the civil society, explaining the measures introduced and gaining public support. Finally, one should be conscious that many of these systems interact, with good and bad