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Part 1 Prisons: Intersectionalities and Contexts

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Human Rights in Latin-American Prisons

Towards A More Comprehensive Understanding

Series: International Studies in Human Rights, Volume: 150

Cover Human Rights in Latin-American Prisons

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004747739

Publisher:: Brill | Nijhoff

Print Publication Date:: 18 Dec 2025

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Front Matter

Preliminary Material

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction: Human Rights in Latin American Prisons: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding

Part 1 Prisons: Intersectionalities and Contexts

Chapter 2 Female Incarceration in Latin America and Mexico

Chapter 3 Reproductive Health and Rights in Prisons: Challenges and Opportunities for Latin America

Chapter 4 Assessing State Compliance with Interim Measures Protecting Persons Deprived of Liberty in Latin America

Part 2 Prisons: Crisis and Structural Problems

Chapter 5 The covid-19 Pandemic and Prison Policy in Latin America

Chapter 6 Addressing the Impact and Response to the covid-19 Pandemic in Latin American Prisons

Chapter 7 A Lost Critical Juncture: covid-19 in Brazilian Prisons

Chapter 8 Two Emergency Regimes: Prison, Judicial Intervention, and the covid-19 Pandemic in Colombia

Chapter 9 Concluding Remarks: The Need to Fundamentally Rethink Who Is Imprisoned, Why, and under What Conditions

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