Imprisonment today and tomorrow : international perspectives on prisoners' rights and prison conditions
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Imprisonment today and tomorrow : international perspectives on prisoners' rights and prison conditions
Kluwer Low and Taxation Publishers, c1991
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This book describes the purposes and other aspects of imprisonment in various societies, addressing broad questions of penal policy.
Twenty-three national overviews generally discuss quantitative developments, types of prisons, organisational structures, the legal framework and specific problems such as complaints procedures, judicial control of prison administration, medical treatment of prisoners, prison labour, visits and outside contacts, security measures, control of the early release of sentenced prisoners, etc.
The country reports included are: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England and Wales, Federal Republic of Germany, France, German Democratic Republic, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, The People's Republic of China, Poland, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States and the United Nations.
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