Contributor: United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Summary: This publication is part of a series of training handbooks for human rights education, which are designed to be adaptable to the needs and experience of a range of potential audiences. This publication focuses on human rights training for prison officials and includes practical recommendations, topics for discussion, case studies, and checklists. The topics covered include: right to physical and moral integrity, health rights of prisoners, security regulation, prisoners contact with the outside world, complaints and inspection procedures, special categories of prisoners, and persons under detention without sentence. A companion publication "Human Rights and Prisons: a Pocketbook of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials" (ISBN 9211541581) is also available separately.
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Subject: Human rights > Study and teaching > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Prisons > Officials and employees > Training of.; Prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc. > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Prisoners > Civil rights > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Étude et enseignement.; Prisons > Personnel > Formation.; Prisonniers > Droit.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.; Human rights > Study and teaching.; Prisoners > Civil rights.; Prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc.; Prisons > Officials and employees > Training of.; Mensenrechten.; Gevangeniswezen.; HUMAN RIGHTS.; PRISONER TREATMENT.; ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.; STANDARDS.; INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS.; Human rights education --; Manuals; Prisoners --; Civil rights --; Manuals

Publication date: 2005
Title Variation: Manual on human rights training for prison officials
Series: Professional training series, 1020-1688 ; no. 11
Note: "HR/P/PT/11"--Title page verso.; "United Nations publication. Sales no. E.04. XIV.1"--Title page verso.
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Reproduction: Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
Format: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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ISBN: 1423732995 (electronic bk.); 9781423732990 (electronic bk.); 9211541549; 9789211541540

Human rights and prisons : a manual on human rights training for prison officials

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