MONITORING PLACES OF DETENTION : A PRACTICAL GUIDE
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SEPARATION OF CATEGORIES OF DETAINEES
Standards
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“2. (a) Accused persons shall, save in exceptional circumstances,
be segregated from convicted persons and shall be subject to separate
treatment appropriate to their status as unconvicted persons;
(b) Accused juvenile persons shall be separated from adults and
brought as speedily as possible for adjudication.” ICCPR, Art. 10.2
“Article 10, paragraph 2 (a), provides for the segregation, save in
exceptional circumstances, of accused persons from convicted
ones. Such segregation is required in order to emphasize their status
as unconvicted persons who at the same time enjoy the right to be
presumed innocent as stated in article 14, paragraph 2.” GC 21, para.
9.
“The different categories of prisoners shall be kept in separate
institutions or parts of institutions taking account of their sex, age,
criminal record, the legal reason for their detention and the necessities
of their treatment. Thus,
(a) Men and women shall so far as possible be detained in separate
institutions; in an institution which receives both men and women
the whole of the premises allocated to women shall be entirely separate;
(b) Untried prisoners shall be kept separate from convicted prisoners;
(c) Persons imprisoned for debt and other civil prisoners shall be
kept separate from persons imprisoned by reason of a criminal
offence;
(d) Young prisoners shall be kept separate from adults.” SMR,
Rule 8.
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