Human Rights In African Prisons

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Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in African Prisons written by and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisons are always a key focus of those interested in human rights and the rule of law. Human Rights in African Prisons looks at the challenges African governments face in dealing with these issues. Written by some of the most eminent researchers from and on Africa, including the former chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. This collection provides a current analysis of the situation in African prisons and examines how regional and international legal instruments have dealt with human rights concerns such as overcrowding, healthcare, pretrial detention, and the treatment of women and children. Human Rights in African Prisons reveals that there are reforms under way across nations in Africa and makes recommendations for strengthening and building on them.

Author : Marie Morelle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100038151X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa written by Marie Morelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa. The book stresses the contingent, porous nature of African prisons, across both time and space. It draws on original long-term ethnographic research undertaken in both Francophone and Anglophone settings, which are grouped in four parts. The first part examines how the prison has imprinted itself on wider political and social imaginaries and, in turn, how structures of imprisonment carry the imprint of political action of various times. The second part stresses how particular forms of ordering emerge in African prisons. It is held that while these often involve coercion and neglect, they are better understood as the product of on-going negotiations and the search for meaning and value on the part of a multitude of actors. The third part is concerned with how prison life percolates beyond its physical perimeters into its urban and rural surroundings, and vice versa. It deals with the popular and contested nature of what prisons are about and what they do, especially in regard to bringing about moral subjects. The fourth and final part of the book examines how efforts of reforming and resisting the prison take shape at the intersection of globally circulating models of good governance and levels of self-organisation by prisoners. The book will be an essential reference for students, academics and policy-makers in Law, Criminology, Sociology and Politics.

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9781564321268
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Conditions in South Africa written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While visiting over twenty prisons as well as lockups in at least five different cities throughout South Africa, we found significant improvements had been made since the political climate began to change in 1990. Nevertheless, South Africa's prisoner-to-population ratio is among the highest in the world, and many aspects of prison life remain depressinly unchanged from the years of official apartheid. South African prisons are places of extreme violence, where assaults on prisoners by guards or fellow inmates are common and often fatal.

Author : Mahgoub El-Tigani Mahmoud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Rights of African Prisoners written by Mahgoub El-Tigani Mahmoud and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African countries suffer from a serious lack in civil rights and public freedoms more than industrial countries do, explaining the low levels of reform so far attained in the criminal justice system, in general, and prisons, in particular. African penal institutions must be reformed by democratic methods in order to implement the best changes possible for the criminal justice system, crime prevention, and prison inmates.

Author : Harri Englund
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520249240
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of Freedom written by Harri Englund and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Alex Friedman
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 0932863841
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalist Punishment written by Alex Friedman and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are incarcerated in prisons owned and operated by private corporations--a booming business. But how are the human rights of prisoners and prison employees affected when prisons are run for profit? An accomplished group of human rights writers and activists explores the historical, political and economic context of private prisons: * How are prisoners' lives affected by privatization? * How does it impact prison labor and prison employees? * How and why are private prisons becoming transnational? * Are women, children, and African and Native Americans affected differently from other populations? * How is privatization connected to the war on drugs, the criminalization of poverty and 'tough on crime' politics? The preface is by Sir Nigel Rodley, Professor of Law at the University of Essex; former United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture; and knighted in 1999 for recognition of services to human rights and international law.

Author : Frans Viljoen
Publisher : Boris Wijkstrom
ISBN 13 : 2884771174
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the African Human Rights System written by Frans Viljoen and published by Boris Wijkstrom. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken Walibora
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612292175
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrating Prison Experience written by Ken Walibora and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Coyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954544423
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management written by Andrew Coyle and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Viviane Saleh-Hanna
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776618237
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Systems of Control written by Viviane Saleh-Hanna and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis. Keywords: Nigeria, West Africa, penal system, maximum-security prison. Published in English.