Costa Rican judicial reform bill would create specialized drug courts

A week after a Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) chief was arrested in a corruption investigation, the heads of Costa Rica’s three branches of government jointly presented a reform bill Wednesday that would create specialized drug courts, among other reforms to the judicial branch. The bill, developed with the judicial branch, would create a specialized court
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Costa Rica to provide support to incarcerated drug addicts

To get the US$2 he needed to satisfy his crack addiction, Juan Carlos Alemán thought he had no choice but to steal a woman’s purse in Costa Rica’s capital of San José. On the afternoon of July 13, 2012, after smoking crack with one of his friends, Alemán found himself without any money and needing
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Costa Rica Launches Drug Treatment Court Pilot Projects with OAS Support

The Organization of American States (OAS), through the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) will support the government of Costa Rica in the establishment of two pilot drug treatment courts under judicial supervision that will be presented tomorrow, February 8, in San Jose. The Vice-Minister of the Presidency for Security Affairs and CICAD chair, Mauricio
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