The Protection of Prisoners’ Rights in England and Wales

Owers, Anne

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“…66 Increasingly, European countries are creating independent, nonprofit agencies to monitor the health of incarcerated populations. 67 Independent monitoring boards in correctional facilities can improve the treatment of prisoners and help protect them from abuse. 68 With a few exceptions, equivalent agencies do not exist in the United States.…”

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Public Health and Solitary Confinement in the United States

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The history of solitary confinement in the United States stretches from the silent prisons of 200 years ago to today's supermax prisons, mechanized panopticons that isolate tens of thousands, sometimes for decades. We examined the living conditions and characteristics of the populations in solitary confinement. As part of the growing movement for reform, public health agencies have an ethical obligation to help address the excessive use of solitary confinement in jails and prisons in accordance with established public health functions (e.g., violence prevention, health equity, surveillance, and minimizing of occupational and psychological hazards for correctional staff). Public health professionals should lead efforts to replace reliance on this overly punitive correctional policy with models based on rehabilitation and restorative justice.

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Public Health and Solitary Confinement in the United States

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“…Potential privacy rights violations include: disclosure of HIV status; sex offender registers and community notification laws; and control over offenders' correspondence (Valette 2002;Hudson 2001;Lippke 2007;Schone 2001;Valette 2002;Winick and La Fond 2003). Potential health and well-being rights violations include: "closed" social and legal visits (behind glass screen); significant risk of exposure to HIV and denial of adequate treatment; lack of effective psychiatric care; unsanitary cells and overcrowded living conditions; physical inactivity; chemical castration; and life time criminalization and stigmatization (Coyle 2003;Hudson 2001;La Fond 2005;Owers 2006;Schone 2001;Snacken 2006;Valette 2002;Zyl Smit 2006). Furthermore, there has been virtually no attention paid to the application of a human rights perspective to clinical practice with offenders, that is, the assessment, treatment, and monitoring of individuals who have committed crimes (although see Lewis 2005;McNeill 2006), To date, the work that has been conducted has been largely due to the efforts of lawyers, psychiatrists, philosophers, criminologists, and policy analysts (e.g., Abramowitz 2005;Carrabine 2006;Chappell 2004;Hayden 2001;Lazarus 2006;Lewis 2005;Liebling 2004;Morris 2006;Nussbaum 2000Nussbaum , 2006Perlin 2005;Valette 2002).…”

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Human Rights and the Treatment of Sex Offenders

2007

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Human rights create a protective zone around persons and allow them the opportunity to further their own valued personal projects without interference from others. All human beings hold human rights and that includes sex offenders, although some of their freedom rights may be legitimately curtailed by the State. In this paper we apply the concept of human rights to sex offenders. First we briefly analyze the concept of human rights, their structure, and justification. Second, we apply our own model of human rights to the assessment and treatment of sex offenders. We conclude that a significant advantage of a human rights approach is that it is able to integrate the value and capability aspects of offender treatment.

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“…Many prisoners experience bullying (from prisoners and staff), are unable to cope with 'prison life' and express feelings of loneliness and isolation (Liebling, 2006;Sharkey, 2010). Lack of staff supervision, sensory deprivation, isolating conditions and overcrowded units have also been linked to suicidal and self-harming behaviours among prisoners (Daniel, 2006;Owers, 2006). The impact of this wider correctional context cannot be overlooked, particularly when reflecting on the overall purpose and use of ARUs as a way of preventing self-harming behaviour.…”

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Care-Oriented Practice In At-Risk Units: Risks, Realities and the Role of Multi-Disciplinary Teams

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<p>At-Risk Units (ARUs), which contain and prevent suicide and self-harm among prisoners, have been criticised for their isolating, non-therapeutic nature. This thesis explores the potential for care-oriented practice to develop in ARUs at two prisons, with a particular emphasis on the role that multi-disciplinary teams and an enhanced healthcare presence can play in achieving this goal. Adopting a qualitative framework, this research draws upon nineteen interviews with nursing, forensic and custodial ARU staff from Hawkes Bay Regional Prison (HBRP) and Rimutaka Prison (RP). This research found that while normative care-oriented operational safeguards and legal frameworks underpin current ARU policies, they can often become shaped, or in some cases inhibited, by managerial adherence to compliance, risk-management priorities, limited resourcing, staffing issues and a punitive prison culture. However, in instances where multi-disciplinary teams are well resourced, have open channels of communication and operate within health-focused ARU environments, as evidenced in the current workings of RP, positive care-oriented responses to ‘at-risk’ prisoners can be better provided. The thesis concludes by noting that incremental reforms to the current framework may be useful in enhancing care-oriented ARU practice. However, even with change, the question remains whether correctional ARUs can stem burgeoning mental health issues and ‘at-risk’ behaviours among prisoners.</p>

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The Protection of Prisoners’ Rights in England and Wales

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Public Health and Solitary Confinement in the United States

Public Health and Solitary Confinement in the United States

Human Rights and the Treatment of Sex Offenders

Care-Oriented Practice In At-Risk Units: Risks, Realities and the Role of Multi-Disciplinary Teams

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