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Prisoners' Rights since the Woolf Report: Progress or Procrastination?
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The authors examines how far a rights culture has developed in prisons since Woolf and concludes that while some progress has been made through the courts and through pressure from monitoring bodies, government policy and practice has frequently resisted rather than promoted the development of a rights-based culture.Abstract:
The recommendations of the Woolf Report (Woolf and Tumin 1991) promoted the principles of justice and fairness in the running of prisons in England and Wales. This article examines how far a rights culture has developed in prisons since Woolf. This is done with reference to human rights legislation, the role of monitoring bodies and government policy and practice in relation to prisoners' rights and conditions. The article concludes that while some progress has been made through the courts and through pressure from monitoring bodies, government policy and practice has frequently resisted rather than promoted the development of a rights-based culture.read more
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Human rights as risk: UK prisons and the management of risk and rights:
TL;DR: In this article, the overlap between the demands of organizational risk management and human rights in the UK prison sector has been investigated, but little attention has been devoted to the overlap.
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Prisongate: The Shocking State of Britain's Prisons and the Need for Visionary Change. By David Ramsbotham (London: Free Press, 2003, 367pp. £20 hb)
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There is an alternative: challenging the logic of neoliberal penality
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Sites of Sickness, Sites of Rights? HIV/AIDS and the limits of human rights in British prisons.
TL;DR: This article considers one specific strand of discussion around HIV/AIDS, in order to think about the uses and limitations of human rights discourse in late twentieth century Britain.
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Rights as risk: managing human rights and risk in the UK prison sector
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the shifts towards "business risk" management in prison governance, alongside the increasing recognition that human rights have the ability to manifest as significant organisational risks (for example, legal or reputational).
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Prisongate: The Shocking State of Britain's Prisons and the Need for Visionary Change. By David Ramsbotham (London: Free Press, 2003, 367pp. £20 hb)
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Early Release for Seriously Ill and Elderly Prisoners: Should French Practice be Followed?
TL;DR: In 2002, a formal system for dealing with the early release of prisoners on grounds of ill health was introduced in France as mentioned in this paper, which has already been applied successfully in cases of seriously ill and elderly prisoners.