Prisoners' rights
The rights of civilian and military prisoners are governed by both national and international law. International conventions include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the United Nations' Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and the Convention on the [Rights of Persons with Disabilities].
Rights and advocacy by country
Asia
- Prisons in India
- Prisoners' rights in the Middle East
- * Prisoners' rights in Israel
- ** Palestinian prisoners of Israel
- * Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- ** Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights (Iran)
- ** 2010 Iranian political prisoners' hunger strike for prisoners' rights
- Human rights in China
- * Penal system in China
- * Laogai
- * Xinjiang internment camps
- * Notable prisons:
- ** Qincheng Prison
- ** Tilanqiao Prison
- Penal system of Japan
- Malaysian Prison Department
- * Caning in Malaysia
- * 2020 Malaysia movement control order
- Human rights in [North Korea#Prisons|Human rights in North Korea]
- *Prisons in North Korea
- * Kwalliso
- ** Hoeryong concentration camp
- Prisons in Pakistan
- Re-education camp (Vietnam)
Europe
- Prison conditions in France
- Prisons in Germany
- Crime in Italy
- * Article 41-bis prison regime
- Human rights in Russia
- * Prisoners' Union
- * Human rights in the Soviet Union
- * Gulag
- United Kingdom prison population
- *Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners
- * Hirst v United Kingdom (No 2)
- * Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill
- * 1981 Irish hunger strike
- Children of Prisoners Europe
North America
- Incarceration in Canada
- *Correctional Service of Canada
- *John Howard Society
- In the United States:
- *Human rights in the United States
- *Incarceration in the United States
- *Prisoner rights in the United States
- **Decarceration in the United States
- ** Prisoner abuse in the United States
- ** Felony disenfranchisement in the United States
- ** Penal labor in the United States
- ** Prison rape in the United States
- ** Organ donation in the United States prison population
- ** Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons
- ** Political prisoners in the United States
- * Notable groups:
- **November Coalition
- **Critical Resistance and Incite!
- **Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
- **Black and Pink
- **Prisoners Rights Union
- *Notable events:
- **1971 Attica Prison riot
- **1973 Wapole Prison uprising
- **Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
- **Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- **Orleans Parish Prison abandonment during Hurricane Katrina
- **2013 California prisoner hunger strike
- **2016 U.S. prison strike
- **2018 U.S. prison strike
- *Chain gang
- *Convict leasing
Oceania
- Punishment in Australia
- * Indonesian children in Australian prisons
- Prisoners' rights in New Zealand
- * Voting rights of prisoners in New Zealand
- Human rights in Vanuatu