Law 9161 amended Article 77 of the drug law so that sentences take proportionality and the situation of women into account; in March 2012 some 120 women were in prison for bringing drugs into jails. The same month President Laura Chinchilla pardoned seven women imprisoned for trafficking.[1]
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