OAS Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Rapporteurship on
the Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty.
Report on the use of pretrial detention in the Americas.
p. ; cm. (OAS. Official records ; OEA/Ser.L)
ISBN 978-0-8270-6170-5
1. Preventive detention--America. 2. Prisoners--Civil rights-America. 3. Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.--America. 4.
Criminal procedures--America.
5. Detention of persons--America. 6. Human rights--America. I.
Title. II. Series: OAS. Official records ; OEA/Ser.L.
OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc.46/13
Document published thanks to the financial support of Spain. The positions herein
expressed are those of the Inter‐American Commission on Human Rights and do not reflect
the views of Spain.
Approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on December 30, 2013