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  • document preview of United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules)

    United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules)

    "The following rules are not intended to describe in detail a model system of penal institutions.