Prisoners and Human Rights
Author | : Surendra Kumar Pachauri |
Publisher | : APH Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Convicts |
ISBN | : 9788176480758 |
Download Prisoners And Human Rights full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Prisoners And Human Rights ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Surendra Kumar Pachauri |
Publisher | : APH Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Convicts |
ISBN | : 9788176480758 |
Author | : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights |
Publisher | : United Nations Publications |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This publication is part of a series of training handbooks for human rights education which are designed to be adaptable to the needs and experience of a range of potential audiences. This publication focuses on human rights training for prison officials and includes practical recommendations, topics for discussion, case studies and checklists. Topics covered include: right to physical and moral integrity; health rights of prisoners; security regulation; prisoners contact with the outside world; complaints and inspection procedures; special categories of prisoners; and persons under detention without sentence. A companion publication "Human rights and prisons: a pocketbook of international human rights standards for prison officials" (ISBN 9211541581) is also available separately.
Author | : David Brown |
Publisher | : Federation Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781862874244 |
Gives voice to a diverse range of viewpoints on the debate on prisoners' rights, with contributions from prisoners, human rights activists, academics, criminal justice policy makers and practitioners.
Author | : Alex Friedman |
Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2010-04-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0932863841 |
Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are incarcerated in prisons owned and operated by private corporations--a booming business. But how are the human rights of prisoners and prison employees affected when prisons are run for profit? An accomplished group of human rights writers and activists explores the historical, political and economic context of private prisons: * How are prisoners' lives affected by privatization? * How does it impact prison labor and prison employees? * How and why are private prisons becoming transnational? * Are women, children, and African and Native Americans affected differently from other populations? * How is privatization connected to the war on drugs, the criminalization of poverty and 'tough on crime' politics? The preface is by Sir Nigel Rodley, Professor of Law at the University of Essex; former United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture; and knighted in 1999 for recognition of services to human rights and international law.
Author | : Harri Englund |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2006-09-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520249240 |
Publisher Description
Author | : Ahmed Othmani |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2008-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1845454545 |
The author tells of his own appalling treatment when in detention and how it informed and inspired a lifetime vocation to struggle for the rights of all prisoners everywhere. As the story demonstrates, he is one of those rare individuals who moved from passion and conviction to effective action - he was responsible for the establishment of one of the world's most reliable and mature human rights organizations, in the field of penal reform, Penal Reform International (PRI). His untimely death in Morocco in 2004 deprived the cause of a passionate advocate, but the work goes on.
Author | : John W. Palmer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1159 |
Release | : 2014-09-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1317523865 |
This text details critical information on all aspects of prison litigation, including information on trial and appeal, conditions of isolated confinement, access to the courts, parole, right to medical aid and liabilities of prison officials. Highlighted topics include application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to prisons, protection given to HIV-positive inmates, and actions of the Supreme Court and Congress to stem the flow of prison litigation. Part II contains Judicial Decisions Relating to Part I.
Author | : Dirk Van Zyl Smit |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2019-01-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674989112 |
Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. The authors estimate that nearly half a million people face life behind bars, and the number is growing as jurisdictions both abolish death sentences and impose life sentences more freely for crimes that would never have attracted capital punishment. Life Imprisonment explores this trend through systematic data collection and legal analysis, persuasively illustrated by detailed maps, charts, tables, and comprehensive statistical appendices. The central question—can life sentences be just?—is straightforward, but the answer is complicated by the vast range of penal practices that fall under the umbrella of life imprisonment. Van Zyl Smit and Appleton contend that life imprisonment without possibility of parole can never be just. While they have some sympathy for the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, they conclude that life imprisonment, in many of the ways it is implemented worldwide, infringes on the requirements of justice. They also examine the outliers—states that have no life imprisonment—to highlight the possibility of abolishing life sentences entirely. Life Imprisonment is an incomparable resource for lawyers, lawmakers, criminologists, policy scholars, and penal-reform advocates concerned with balancing justice and public safety.
Author | : Susan Easton |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-03-10 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1136817050 |
This book considers prisoners' rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives, assessing the advantages and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment with a focus on citizenship, the treatment of women prisoners, and social exclusion.