Portugal

USE ONLY INCARCERATIONS, BY YEAR

1986-1996

Year

1986

(…)

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

Use offenders condemned to effective imprisonment

116

(…)

74

130

177

107

(na)

(na)

Prisoners only because use offence, December end

(na)

(…)

(na)

(na)

(na)

26

(na)

10

Note: the 1994 small incarceration number was a result of one general amnesty.

sources: Gabinete de Estudos e Planeamento do Ministério da Justiça, Gabinete de Planeamento e Coordenação do Combate à Droga, cited by the newspapers Publico de 17/09/95, 06/07/97; Diário de Noticias de 28/06/97; Expresso de 25/02/95; and Correio da Manhã de 22/06/97; Presentation brochure from Projecto Vida.


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