Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 71
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For women incarcerated for drug crimes, the lack of rehabilitative care often means that the conditions that rendered them vulnerable to drug involvement in the first place are sometimes replicated and augmented in prison, and after release. One Canadian study found that women offenders who were released and who did not participate in a drug treatment programme were 10 times more likely to return to prison within one year than the prisoners who did participate.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences