prisoner rights
Incarcerated persons' entitlements
Prisoner rights are the legal protections and entitlements retained by incarcerated individuals.
While imprisonment restricts liberty, prisoners generally keep rights to humane treatment, medical care, due process in disciplinary proceedings, and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.
The scope varies by jurisdiction: The lawsuit alleged violations of prisoner rights under the Eighth Amendment.
Advocates argue that losing freedom shouldn't mean losing basic human dignity.
- habeas corpusWrit challenging lawful custody
- dignityInnate personal worth
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- appeals processSystem for contesting decisions
- vocational trainingJob-skill education
equal protection · fair trial · humane treatment · literacy programs · parole eligibility · disability accommodations · disease prevention · legislative reforms · cultural sensitivity · educational access · wrongful conviction · mentorship programs · non-discrimination · sentencing reform · conjugal visit · phone calls · religious freedom · substance abuse treatment
- prisonsinmates, cells, prisons, penitentiary, guards
- imprisonmentjail, prisoners, cells, captivity, dungeons
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, fair trial
- law and societysocial control, legal institutions, legal systems, social order, rule of law
- Prison Reformpenal reform, overcrowding, correctional facilities, sentencing reform, incarceration rates
- prisoner aidpenal reform, family visits, visitation, care packages, reentry programs
prisoner rightsprisoner abuse
Harm inflicted on captives
civil death · loss of privileges · solitary confinement · disciplinary measures