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294 ‘Russia must end torture, prosecute prison
guards: U.N.’ Reuters, 10 August 2018,
www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rights-un/
russia-must-rein-in-torture-prosecute-prisonguards-u-n-idUSKBN1KV137.
295 ‘Police reforms possible across the Council
of Europe – report out’, Convention against
Torture Initiative, 10 July 2018, cti2024.org/
en/news/police-reforms-possible-acrossthe-council-of-europe-report-out.
296 Convention against Torture Initiative, Report:
Sharing experiences and building capacity
in the Caribbean: The Fair Administration
of Justice and the UN Convention against
Torture, 2018, pp1–2.
297 Council of Europe, Recommendation 2147,
2019.
298 ‘Life in Spain’s closed prison
regime: 21 hours a day alone in
a cell’, El Pais, 23 March 2018,
elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/20/
inenglish/1521565074_924080.html.
299 ‘Norway should improve the situation for
prisoners in solitary confinement’, Council
of Europe, 17 January 2019, www.coe.int/
en/web/portal/-/norway-should-improvethe-situation-for-prisoners-in-solitaryconfinement. For more information see:
Council of Europe, Report to the Norwegian
Government on the visit to Norway carried
out by the European Committee for the
Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT),
January 2019.
300 Kristen Petersen, Safeeya Mahomed, Lukas
Muntigh and Tina Lorizzo, African Criminal
Justice Reform and Dullah Omar Institute,
Solitary Confinement – A review of the
legal framework and practice in five African
countries, October 2018, p33.
301 Ibid.
302 ‘Loneliness is bad for brains’, Science News,
6 November 2018, www.sciencenews.
org/article/loneliness-isolation-brainchanges, ‘Neuroscientists Make a
Case against Solitary Confinement’,
Scientific American, 9 November 2018,
www.scientificamerican.com/article/
neuroscientists-make-a-case-againstsolitary-confinement.
303 ‘Leading doctors call on government to ban
solitary confinement of children and young
offenders’, The Independent, 18 April 2018,
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/homenews/solitary-confinement-young-offendersban-mental-health-children-prison-justicedepartment-a8308941.html.
304 Ibid.
305 ‘A child prisoner with ADHD spent 22 hours
a day in a cell, for 55 days – and he’s not the
only one��, iNews, 19 June 2018, inews.co.uk/
opinion/comment/a-child-with-adhd-waslocked-in-a-cell-for-22-hours-a-day-for-55days-if-a-parent-did-that-to-him-we-wouldcall-child-protection.
306 ‘Solitary Confinement of a Death Convict
Before the exhaustion of his complete legal
and constitutional remedies unconstitutional:
Uttarakhand HC’, LiveLaw.in, 29 April 2018,
www.livelaw.in/solitary-confinement-of-adeath-convict-before-the-exhaustion-of-hiscomplete-legal-and-constitutional-remediesunconstitutional-uttarakhand-hc-readjudgment.
307 ‘A Colorado case inspired a U.S. Supreme
Court justice to write a stinging rebuke
of solitary confinement’, The Colorado
Sun, 10 October 2018, coloradosun.
com/2018/10/10/colorado-prisons-solitaryraemisch-sotomayor.
308 British Columbia Civil Liberties Association v
Canada (Attorney General), BCSC 62, 2018.
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309 ‘B.C. court extends Ottawa’s deadline for
solitary confinement law, orders immediate
changes’, The Globe and Mail, 8 January
2019, www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/
british-columbia/article-bc-court-ofappeal-orders-ottawa-to-change-solitaryconfinement-laws.
325 PRI email communication with the
Council of Europe, Council for Penological
Co-operation, 30 January 2019.
310 ‘Prisons squalid and dangerous due to staff
cuts, report says’, The Guardian, 11 July
2018, www.theguardian.com/society/2018/
jul/11/prisoners-prisons-report-englandwales-staff-cuts-peter-clarke.
327 For more information, see: Dr Abi Dymond,
‘Combatting the trade and use of
weapons and restraints for torture and
ill-treatment: a new resource for detention
monitors’, PRI Blog, 10 December 2018,
www.penalreform.org/blog/combatting-thetrade-and-use-of-weapons-and. See also
Penal Reform International and Association
for the Prevention of Torture, Instruments
of restraint: Addressing risk factors to
prevent torture and ill-treatment (Detention
Monitoring Tool), 2013.
311 ‘Prison assaults in England and Wales at
record high’, BBC News, 31 January 2019,
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47070713.
312 ‘Prison Guards in Russia suffer from ‘moral
fatigue’, official says’, Radio Free Europe,
7 January 2019, www.rferl.org/a/prisonguards-in-russia-suffer-from-moral-fatigueofficial-says/29695438.html.
313 ‘Bulgarian government to raise prison
warders’ pay after protests’, Independent
Balkan News Agency, 21 March 2018,
balkaneu.com/bulgarian-government-toraise-prison-warders-pay-after-protests/
index.html.
314 ‘Prison staff protest over ‘unprecedented’
inmate violence’, BBC News, 14 September
2018, www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45518744.
315 ‘Nurses ‘passing out’ from inhaling
spice while giving emergency care
in prison’, The Independent, 30 June
2018, www.independent.co.uk/news/
uk/home-news/prison-nurse-spice-riskdanger-drug-jail-inmates-a8423366.html,
‘USA: Portland prisoners’ Spice use risks
health of officers’, Prison Insider, 17 July
2018, www.prison-insider.com/en/news/
usa-portland-prisoners-spice-use-riskshealth-of-officers.
316 ‘Should Women work in men’s prisons?
These women say yes’, The New York
Times, 21 November 2018, www.nytimes.
com/2018/11/21/reader-center/womenprison-workers.html, ‘Hazing, Humiliation,
Terror: Working while Female in Federal
Prison’, The New York Times, 17 November
2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/us/
prison-sexual-harassment-women.html.
326 Andrew Coyle and Helen Fair, Institute for
Criminal Policy Research, A Human Rights
Approach to Prison Management: Handbook
for Prison Staff, 3rd edition, 2018.
328 Report of the Committee against Torture,
23rd/24th session, A/55/4, para. 180 (c),
reiterated by the Special Rapporteur on
Torture in Interim Report Of The Special
Rapporteur On Torture And Other Cruel,
Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or
Punishment (A/68/295) to the UN General
Assembly, 9 August 2013, para 58.
329 United Nations Standard Minimum Rules
for the Treatment of Prisoners (The Nelson
Mandela Rules), Rule 47.1.
330 Omega Research Foundation and
University of Exeter, Monitoring
Weapons and Restraints in Places
of Detention: A Practical Guide, June
2018, omegaresearchfoundation.org/
documentation-tools/monitoringweapons-and-restraints-placesdetention-practical-guide.
331 Organisations interested in follow-up
training and additional translations of the
guide may contact the authors directly
at info@omegaresearchfoundation.org
or a.dymond@exeter.ac.uk.
332 OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions
and Human Rights and Penal Reform
International, Guidance Document
on the Nelson Mandela Rules, 2018,
www.penalreform.org/resource/guidancedocument-on-the-nelson-mandela-rules.
317 Ministry of Women and Child Development
Government of India, Women in Prisons,
India, June 2018
333 European Court of Human Rights, Voynov
v. Russia, Application no. 39747/10,
3 July 2018.
318 ‘Virginia: Former Assistant Warden
Gets Suspended Sentence for Trading
Privileges for Sex’, Prison Legal News,
www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2018/aug/7/
virginia-former-assistant-warden-getssuspended-sentence-trading-privileges-sex.
334 ‘Female prison inmates demand
‘private time’ with visiting
husbands’, Naiji News, 18 July
2018, www.naijanews.com/2018/07/18/
female-prison-inmates-pleads-for-privatetime-with-visiting-spouse.
319 ‘Over 100 Prison Officials Fired This Year
for Smuggling, Collusion With Inmates’,
Eyewitness News, 27 December 2018,
ewn.co.za/2018/12/28/over-100-prisonofficials-fired-this-year-for-smugglingcollusion-with-inmates.
335 ‘Landmark ruling on conjugal visits heralds
new dawn for prisoners in Oman’, Times of
Oman, 17 March 2018, timesofoman.com/
article/130214/Oman/Landmark-rulingheralds-new-dawn-for-prisoners-in-Oman.
320 ‘Queensland prisons at risk of ‘significant
corruption’, watchdog finds’, ABC,
14 December 2018, www.abc.net.au/
news/2018-12-14/queensland-prisons-atrisk-of-corruption-report-finds/10620482.
321 ‘From lectures to lock up: Graduates join
fight to reform jails’, AOL.com, 7 September
2018, www.aol.co.uk/news/2018/09/07/
from-lectures-to-lock-up-graduates-joinfight-to-reform-jails.
322 Ibid.
323 ‘Programme to help prison staff
suffering from witnessing violence’,
Radio New Zealand, 30 August 2018,
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/365313/
programme-to-help-prison-staff-sufferingfrom-witnessing-violence.
324 Ibid.
336 ‘Inmates to be ensured right to procreate’,
Himalayan Times, 26 March 2018,
thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/inmatesto-be-ensured-right-to-procreate.
337 ‘Model prison to have conjugal rooms’
Tribune, 20 May 2018 tribune.com.pk/
story/1714483/1-model-prison-conjugalrooms.
338 ‘£7m to be spent on phones in prison
cells to stem flow of illegal mobiles’,
The Guardian, 10 July 2018, www.
theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/10/7m-tobe-spent-on-phones-in-prison-cells-to-stemflow-of-illegal-mobiles.
339 ‘Prison photo booths have kept my husband
and son’s bond strong’, Metro, 8 January
2019, metro.co.uk/2019/01/08/prison-photobooths-have-kept-my-husband-and-sonsbond-strong-8322831.
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