Prisoners' rights

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Rights
Theoretical distinctions
Claim rights and liberty rights Individual and group rights Natural rights and legal rights Negative and positive rights
Human rights
Civil and political Economic, social and cultural Three generations
Rights by beneficiary
Accused Animals Children Consumers Creditors Deaf Disabled Elders Farmers Humans Natives Intersex Kings LGBT Men Minorities Parents (Mothers, Fathers) Patients Peasants Plants Prisoners States Students Transgender Victims Women Workers Youth
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The rights of civilian and military prisoners are governed by both national and international law. International conventions include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the United Nations' Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,^[1] and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Rights and advocacy by country[]

Asia[]

• Prisons in India
• Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights (Iran)
  • 2010 Iranian political prisoners' hunger strike for prisoners' rights
• Human rights in China
  • Penal system in China
  • Laogai
  • Xinjiang re-education camps
  • Notable prisons:
    • Qincheng Prison
    • Tilanqiao Prison
• Penal system of Japan
• Malaysian Prison Department
  • Caning in Malaysia
  • 2020 Malaysia movement control order
• Human rights in North Korea
  • Prisons in North Korea
  • Kwalliso
    • Hoeryong concentration camp
• Prisons in Pakistan
• Re-education camp (Vietnam)

Europe[]

• Prison conditions in France
• Prisons in Germany
• Human right of prisoners in Israel
  • Palestinian prisoners of Israel
• Crime in Italy
  • Article 41-bis prison regime
• Human rights in Russia
  • Prisoners' Union
  • Human rights in the Soviet Union
  • Gulag
• United Kingdom prison population
  • Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners
  • Hirst v United Kingdom (No 2)
  • Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill
  • 1981 Irish hunger strike
• Children of Prisoners Europe

North America[]

• Incarceration in Canada
  • Correctional Service of Canada
  • John Howard Society
• In the United States:
  • Human rights in the United States
  • Incarceration in the United States
  • Prisoner rights in the United States
    • Decarceration in the United States
    • Prisoner abuse in the United States
    • Felony disenfranchisement in the United States
    • Penal labor in the United States
    • Prison rape in the United States
    • Organ donation in the United States prison population
    • Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons
  • Notable groups:
    • November Coalition
    • Critical Resistance and Incite!
    • Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
    • Black and Pink
  • Notable events:
    • 1971 Attica Prison riot
    • 1973 Wapole Prison uprising
    • Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
    • Guantanamo Bay detention camp
    • Orleans Parish Prison abandonment during Hurricane Katrina
    • 2013 California prisoner hunger strike
    • 2016 U.S. prison strike
    • 2018 U.S. prison strike
  • Chain gang
  • Convict leasing

Visitation rules at Alcatraz

Oceania[]

• Punishment in Australia
  • Indonesian children in Australian prisons
• Prisoners' rights in New Zealand
  • Voting rights of prisoners in New Zealand
• Human rights in Vanuatu

International[]

• Prisoners' rights in international law
• Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
• List of countries by incarceration rate
• List of hunger strikes
• List of prisons
• Penal Reform International

See also[]

• Prisoner abuse
• Prison abolition movement
• Human rights issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Death in custody
• Solitary confinement
• LGBT people in prison
• Prison–industrial complex
• Prison overcrowding
• Sentencing disparity
• Disfranchisement
• Private prison
• Prison strike

References[]

External links[]

Organizations working for prisoners' rights:

• American Civil Liberties Union on prisoners' rights
• Human Rights Watch
• Amnesty International
• Prison Activist Resource Center
• Lawyer for prisoner And its conditions