The power to punish is traditionally seen as an essential prerogative of the national state.
Over the last three decades, judicial and standard-setting bodies of the Council of Europe …

Prison inspection and monitoring bodies are important safeguards against breaches of
human rights. In recent years, prison inspection and monitoring has become a key focus for …

Considering self-inflicted critical events (suicides, attempted suicides, self-harm acts, hunger
strikes) in Italian prisons as indicators of the respect of inmates' human rights, this study …

Although academic attention has recently been paid to the impressive rise of the legal
framework of human rights in the realm of penal and prison policies in Europe (Cliquennois …

Background International human right standards place obligations on prison authorities to
take reasonable steps to prevent suicides in prison and to investigate those which occur …

Inspection and monitoring bodies have an important role in the protection of prisoners'
rights. Although these bodies are seen as widely beneficial, there is limited research …

German prison legislation is based on a fundamental rights approach but there has been
little examination of how those who should be instantiating a culture of rights in penal …

Protecting the dignity and human rights of prisoners poses difficult challenges. Degradation
is a hallmark of all punishment and especially of imprisonment. Prisons as total institutions …

Abstract The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment (CPT) is a supranational prison oversight body tasked with …

How big a problem is torture? Are the right things being done to prevent it? Why does the
UN appear at times to be so impotent in the face of it? In this vitally important work, Malcolm …