Proyecto ACCESO, with its partners Fundación Paz Ciudadana and Lexis Nexis, launched its new book on drug treatment courts on Thursday, December 27, 2008, in the Matisse Salon at the Hotel Bonaparte in Santiago de Chile.
Proyecto ACCESO helped found the drug treatment programs in Chile. In 2004, we brought ACCESO Executive Committee members Judge Laura Safer Espinoza to Chile and worked with the Fiscalia Nacional, Defensoria Penal Publica and other social service providers (along with the U.S. Embassy in Chile) in a workshop on this problem-solving mechanism. From oral trials to DNA evidence, ACCESO Capacitation and ACCESO Tec have long introduced judicial innovations in Chile and around Latin America.
A pilot program in Valparaiso emerged in 2005 and later in Santiago Sur that promoted these diversion sentencing to get addicts to break their cycle of addiction. A national conference on drug courts at Universidad Católica in Santiago occurred in March 2006, attended by over four hundred people. The United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime helped co-sponsor the conference.
A book from this conference JUSTICIA PENAL Y ADICCIONES: Tribunales de tratamiento como alternativa a la sanción" (Editorial Lexis Nexis) was published in late 2007. The book was coordinated by ACCESO Executive Committee Member Angel Valencia, formerly a prosecutor with the Fiscalia Nacional, and the economist Paula Hurtado of Fundación Paz Ciudadana with contributions from Valencia, Hurtado, Judge Safer Espinoza, ACCESO Director James Cooper and a number of other national experts and international experts. Judge Safer Espinoza is a leading world authority on drug courts, having administered one in the Bronx, NY for more than a decade.
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