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Domestic Criminal Justice Issues and the ICCPR
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Comments "on the periodic report of the United States submitted to the Human Rights Committee in [the] October 2005 report ("Report"), as it pertains to domestic criminal justice issues" are provided (p.1). Compliance with Articles 7, 10, 14, and 24 of the ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) by the U.S. is found to be seriously questionable. Sections following an executive summary are: Article 14 -- the right to a fair trial (the need for counsel in a criminal proceeding and the consequences of inadequate funding); Article 26 -- racial discrimination in sentencing (mandatory minimum sentences result in unequal treatment and federal drug prosecutions are discriminatory); Articles 7 and 10 -- conditions of confinement (conditions within facilities, treatment of the mentally ill, Supermax prisons, and the abuse of women prisoners); and Articles 7, 10, and 24 -- treatment of children in conflict with the law.