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long-term and extreme isolation of prisoners, crowding, and prisoners whose mental and physical health or other circumstances create a variety of special needs. Over the past decades, the ABA has passed numerous policies relating to corrections.
Standard 23-1.1 General principles governing imprisonment .....16 Standard 23-1.2 Treatment of prisoners .....20 PArt ii: intAKe And ClAssifiCAtion .....31
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. Adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held at Geneva in 1955, and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolutions 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS .
Treatment or Punishment. Yet in prisons and jails across the USA inmates are being tortured or ill-treated. More than 1,700,000 people are in prisons and jails in the USA. Half of all prisoners are African Americans and over 60 per cent are from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds. Nearly 20,000 are less than 18 years old.
Rule 1. All prisoners shall be treated with the respect due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings. No prisoner shall be subjected to, and all prisoners shall be protected from, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, for which no circumstances whatsoever may be invoked as a justification.
The Prison Project has investigated conditions for sentenced prisoners, pre-trial detainees and those held in police lockups. It examines prison conditions for all prisoners, not just political...
This Program Statement provides policy, procedures, standards, and guidelines for the delivery of mental health services to inmates with mental illness in all Federal Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) correctional facilities.
