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Global Campaign for Pretrial Justice: Africa Regional Retreat

This report summarizes the sessions and discussions that took place at an Africa regional retreat, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, of the Global Campaign for Pretrial Justice.

December 2010
First page of PDF with filename: africa-retreat-summary-20101201.pdf
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Dominicans of Haitian Descent and the Compromised Right to Nationality

The Open Society Justice Initiative presented this report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, highlighting systematic discrimination in the Dominican Republic.

October 2010
First page of PDF with filename: Dominican-Republic-Nationality-Report-ENG-20110805.pdf
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The Use of Pretrial Detention in Nuevo León

This Open Society Justice Initiative report examines pretrial detention case processing in Mexico, focusing on the state of Nuevo León.

August 2010 | Miguel La Rota and Katherine Fahrenstock
First page of PDF with filename: prision-preventiva-nuevo-leon-20100825.pdf
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Managing Pretrial Release

This Open Society Justice Initiative monograph discusses how best to manage the pretrial release/detention decision, focusing particularly on pretrial evaluation and supervision services.

August 2010 | Denise Tomasini-Joshi
First page of PDF with filename: managing-pretrial-release-20100825.pdf
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Myths of Pretrial Detention in Mexico

This Open Society Justice Initiative monograph provides a critical analysis of the most common arguments—or myths—used to justify the excessive, inhumane, and irrational use of pretrial detention in Mexico.

August 2010 | Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona
First page of PDF with filename: mitos-mexico-20100801.pdf
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Costly Confinement

The costs of pretrial detention in Mexico are painfully high—for the state and its citizens in general, and for detainees and their families in particular.

February 2010 | Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona
First page of PDF with filename: costly-confinement-mexico-20100201_0.pdf
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Profiling Minorities: A Study of Stop-and-Search Practices in Paris

Police officers in Paris consistently stop people on the basis of ethnicity and dress rather than on the basis of suspicious individual behavior, according to our study on stop-and-search practices.

June 2009
First page of PDF with filename: search_20090630.Web.pdf
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Addressing Ethnic Profiling by Police

This Open Society Justice Initiative book reports on strategies for improving police-community relations by increasing the fairness, effectiveness, and accountability of police stops in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Spain.

May 2009
First page of PDF with filename: profiling_20090511.pdf
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