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- Except for those limitations that are demonstrably necessitated by the fact of incarceration, all prisoners shall retain the human rights and fundamental freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and, where the State concerned is a party, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol thereto, as well as such other rights as are set out in other United Nations...
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Dec 14, 1990 · All prisoners shall be treated with the respect due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings. There shall be no discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
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Prisoners' Rights. The National Prison Project is dedicated to ensuring that our nation’s prisons, jails, and detention centers comply with the Constitution, domestic law, and human rights principles.
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These principles apply for the protection of all persons under any form of detention or imprisonment. Use of Terms For the purposes of the Body of Principles: (a) "Arrest" means the act of apprehending a person for the alleged commission of an offence or by the action of an authority; (b) "Detained person" means any person deprived of personal libe...
All persons under any form of detention or imprisonment shall be treated in a humane manner and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person.
Arrest, detention or imprisonment shall only be carried out strictly in accordance with the provisions of the law and by competent officials or persons authorized for that purpose.
There shall be no restriction upon or derogation from any of the human rights of persons under any form of detention or imprisonment recognized or existing in any State pursuant to law, conventions, regulations or custom on the pretext that this Body of Principles does not recognize such rights or that it recognizes them to a lesser extent.
Any form of detention or imprisonment and all measures affecting the human rights of a person under any form of detention or imprisonment shall be ordered by, or be subject to the effective control of, a judicial or other authority.
1. These principles shall be applied to all persons within the territory of any given State, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion or religious belief, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, birth or other status. 2. Measures applied under the law and designed solely to prot...
No person under any form of detention or imprisonment shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 1 No circumstance whatever may be invoked as a justification for torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
1. States should prohibit by law any act contrary to the rights and duties contained in these principles, make any such act subject to appropriate sanctions and conduct impartial investigations upon complaints. 2. Officials who have reason to believe that a violation of this Body of Principles has occurred or is about to occur shall report the matt...
Persons in detention shall be subject to treatment appropriate to their unconvicted status. Accordingly, they shall, whenever possible, be kept separate from imprisoned persons.
The authorities which arrest a person, keep him under detention or investigate the case shall exercise only the powers granted to them under the law and the exercise of these powers shall be subject to recourse to a judicial or other authority.
All prisoners shall be treated with the respect due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings. There shall be no discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Feb 13, 2021 · In essence, they cluster prisoners’ rights into five main packages: (1) the right to a decent life, (2) the right to personal development, (3) the right to social life, (4) the right to civic life, and (5) the right to safety and personal integrity, and examine these on two levels.
- Gaëtan Cliquennois, Sonja Snacken, Dirk van Zyl Smit
- 2021
Prisoners’ rights are the rights of the prisoners against discrimination or abuse within correctional facilities. Both federal and state laws govern the rights of the incarcerated and oversee the operation of the prisons.
Detainees are entitled to the rights and standards enshrined in international law. At the universal level, the main protections are contained in: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
