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A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff
Publication year:
2002
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: International standards regarding prison management and prisoners' rights are explained. Seventeen sections comprise this manual: introduction; prison staff and prison administration; prisoners are human beings; prisoners and health care; operating secure, safe, and orderly prisons; disciplinary procedures and punishments; constructive activities and social reintegration; contact with the outside world; requests and complaints; inspection procedures; pre-trial prisoners and all others under detention without sentence; juvenile and young prisoners; women prisoners; life and long-term prisoners; prisoners under sentence of death; recognizing diversity; and the use of prison and alternatives to custody. An appendix provides a list of relevant human rights instruments.