The recent revolts, escapes and killings in Latin American prisons seem all too familiar in a region with an incarceration rate twice that of the European Union and some of the highest homicide rates in the world. But an article in the New York Times describing the wholesale takeover of prison systems by criminal groups has brought broader attention to a regional crisis in … [Read more...] about Wielding Better Information and Policies to Curb the Prison Crisis in Latin America
Fernando Cafferata
Fernando Gabriel Cafferata is a Senior Specialist in Institutional Capacity of the Public Sector of the IDB in Brazil. He has published articles in Comparative Political Studies, Applied Geography, Papers in Applied Geography, among others. A native of Argentina, he holds an MPA from Harvard University and a master's degree in Economics from the University of San Andrés (Argentina), where he is a PhD candidate.
Changing Public Attitudes to Combat a Crime Epidemic
With 9% of the world's population and 33% of its homicides, Latin America and the Caribbean suffers from far too much violence. But government responses, heavily focused on punitive practices like mass incarceration, have fallen short. While incarceration has increased by 76% over the last decade, the region as a whole still has more than twice the homicide rate as the world … [Read more...] about Changing Public Attitudes to Combat a Crime Epidemic