NCJ Number
80160
Journal
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Volume: 25 Issue: 2 Dated: (1981) Pages: 178-186
Date Published
1981
Length
9 pages
Annotation
This article discusses prisoners' rights in Poland, both within the correctional institution and beyond it.
Abstract
The rights of inmates are examined in the ideal and the actual. These rights include the right to rehabilitation/resocialization, the right to live in hygenic conditions, the right to protection of health and health care, and the right to work. Also included are the right to study, education, and creative work; the right to recreation; the right to equal and just treatment; the right to freedom of conscience; and the right to self-government. Each of these rights is explained in detail. Extra-institutional rights refer to rights which regulate the position of the inmate as the object of civil and private laws outside the penitentiary. Legal norms which regulate these matters define the prisoner's place in the community outside the prison. These include social rights, civil rights, public rights, the right to keep in touch with one's family, and the right to remain in contact with supervisors and other extra prison institutions and the right to file complaints. The article explains these rights in detail. Five references are provided.