Prisoners' rights

Criminology and penology
Theory Anomie Biosocial criminology Broken windows Collective efficacy Crime analysis Criminalization Differential association Deviance Expressive function of law Labeling theory Psychopathy Rational choice Risk and actuarial criminology Social control Social learning Strain Subculture Symbolic interactionism Victimology Secondary victimisation Victim blaming
Types of crime Against Humanity Person State Class Blue-collar White-collar Cold case Perfect Corporate Hate Immigrant International Juvenile Organized Political Public-order State State-corporate Transnational Victimless War
Methods Comparative Profiling Ethnography Uniform Crime Reports Crime mapping reform sentencing Crime statistics Positivist school Qualitative Quantitative BJS NIBRS
Penology Crime prevention Corrections Denunciation Deterrence Incapacitation Sentence Trial Prison Prisoner Solitary confinement Punishment Rehabilitation Recidivism Zero tolerance Criminal justice Participatory Restorative Retributive Right to an effective remedy Utilitarian Transformative Prison reform abolition open Prisoner abuse Prisoners' rights Victims' rights
Schools Anarchist Chicago Classical Conflict Critical Environmental Feminist Integrative Italian Law and order Marxist Neo-classical Populist Positivist Postmodernist Realism Left Right
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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 Autistic Children Consumers Creditors Deaf Disabled Elders Family Farmers Humans Indigenous Intersex Kings LGBTQ Transgender Men Minorities Parents Fathers Mothers Patients Peasants Plants Prisoners Robots States Students Victims Effective remedy Women Workers Unborn Youth
Other groups of rights
Assembly Association Asylum Civil liberties Clothing Development Digital Education Fair trial Food Free migration Guns Health Environment Housing Linguistic Movement Property Public participation Repair Resist Rest and leisure Revolution Security Sexual and Reproductive Abortion Reproductive Sexuality Self defense Self-determination Speech Water and sanitation
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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, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

• Prisons in India
• Prisoners' rights in the Middle East
  • Prisoners' rights in Israel
    • Palestinian prisoners of Israel
  • 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 internment 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)

• Prison conditions in France
• Prisons in Germany
• 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

Photos from rallies to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp

2017 rally to close Guantanamo

2019 rally to close Guantanamo

• 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
    • Political prisoners in the United States
  • 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

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

• 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

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

Organizations working for prisoners' rights:

• American Civil Liberties Union on prisoners' rights
• Human Rights Watch
• Amnesty International
• Prison Activist Resource Center