Venezuelan Prisons' Human Rights Violations and Suggested Reforms Based on the Success of Norway's Restorative Justice-Focused Approach to Incarceration

Authors

Nadiya Singh

First Page

331

Abstract

Venezuela holds the title for having the highest crime index in the world, serving as a microcosm of the country’s widespread and devastating political and humanitarian inadequacies. Its prisons are rife with deadly disease, severe overcrowding, and starving prisoners whose entry into these facilities calls into question their guaranteed human rights under the Venezuelan Constitution. This Note highlights these injustices and argues that the starvation, physical and mental abuse, and extreme neglect that Venezuela’s prisoners are subject to, violate the protection of their guaranteed human rights under Articles 46 and 83 of Venezuela’s Constitution. A comparative analysis of Norway, which has one of the lowest rates of recidivism and follows a restorative justice-focused approach to incarceration, is offered as a progressive model for Venezuela to follow.

Recommended Citation

Nadiya Singh, Venezuelan Prisons' Human Rights Violations and Suggested Reforms Based on the Success of Norway's Restorative Justice-Focused Approach to Incarceration, 47 Brook. J. Int'l L. 331 (2021).
Available at: https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/bjil/vol47/iss1/8