{"id":347,"date":"2006-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-10-04T21:06:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:06:14","slug":"mandatory-minimum-sentences-for-drug-offences-why-everyone-loses","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/mandatory-minimum-sentences-for-drug-offences-why-everyone-loses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offences: Why Everyone Loses"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2529\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offences: Why Everyone Loses\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MMS+Paper+-+ENG.jpg\" width=\"139\" height=\"180\" \/><br \/>\nThere has recently been a movement on the part of the newly elected federal government to consider mandatory sentences and stiff penalties for drug offenders. However, scientific evidence indicates that mandatory minimum sentences only worsen the health-related harms associated with incarceration by increasing the transmission of infectious disease in prisons.<br \/>\n<!-- mandatory minimum sentences, drug offenders, incarceration, drug-related crime, drug dealers --><p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offences: Why Everyone Loses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/10663\/?tmstv=1776402090\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[147],"publication_type":[173],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-347","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_type-briefing-papers","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22468,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/347\/revisions\/22468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}