Criminalisation of drugs has wreaked havoc on SA, says Edwin Cameron

The criminalisation of drugs has failed to deter addiction but instead triggered use inside prison walls and worsened the costly overcrowding of prisons. 

This is one of the arguments that retired Constitutional Court justice Edwin Cameron, with co-authors Rebecca Gore and Sohela Surajpal, has made in a new book titled Behind Prison Walls...

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