Accra Daily Mail, 26/10/07
Mr Kwamena Bartels, Minister of  Interior on Wednesday bemoaned the rate at which massive quantities of drugs, were being shipped into the country and said government would make the necessary amendments to. PNDCL 236 to deal with the current trends.
He said the situation was as a result of the increased efforts of [...]

by Olga Heaven, The Weekly Gleaner (UK ), 18/04/01
At the moment there are over 350 Jamaican women in UK prisons, 60 per cent of the foreign national women currently held here, mostly for smuggling drugs into the country. Despite harsh sentences of up to 15 years the women keep coming in ever-greater numbers.
Most of these [...]

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Global Eye on Human Traffiking, 5 May 2009

Olga Heaven spoke to the Global Eye team about the deception and exploitation of drug mules, and about the link between illicit drug importation and human trafficking.
How are people generally recruited into being drug mules?
They are recruited in different ways depending on the country, and depending on [...]

The Guardian, Thursday 14 May 2009
These naive smugglers are typically badly educated single mothers coerced into crime, says Olga Heaven
It was heartening to read that prison sentences for “drug mules” – men and women who are used to carry drugs into the UK – could be reduced to less than two years (Long jail terms [...]