in a situation of vulnerability and the some groups in particular. The “soft degrees of vulnerability, mirror those law” standards however differ in scope within general society. But in some and detail with respect to the different countries, vulnerability may stem also groups. They are more detailed and from the specificities of the organisation wider in scope on women and children, of imprisonment and are quite deficient regarding some in general, and as of a punishment the regime of prisoners. Some NPMs have developed imprisonment in particular. Anti-discrimination and anti-torture provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (hereafter, the Charter) and of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), as well as those of the United Nations (UN) treaties, are applicable also in prisons. Several of the roadmap directives of the EU may be beneficial to different groups of prisoners in a situation of vulnerability, especially foreigners, prisoners minorities and from indigenous ethnic prisoners. A number of “soft law” documents at the UN and the Council of Europe (CoE) level provide standards for the treatment of specific groups in a particularly vulnerable position in prisons and other places of detention. in the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR) and in the European Prison Rules (EPR). There are also a number of documents their own lists of vulnerable groups of prisoners. A number of European NPMs have focused on specific groups in a situation of vulnerability in prisons and have reported on them in their general reports and in special reports. The groups covered in the NPM reports however are limited in number. They include children and young adults, prisoners with disabilities, women and, to a lesser extent, foreign prisoners. There are few reports, which go in detail and deal with the whole variety of vulnerable groups based on international standards. Sometimes some groups in a situation of vulnerability are only mentioned and other such groups are not subject to Specific provisions on some such groups exist other vulnerable groups, e.g. the LGBTIQ dedicated to monitoring and recommendations at all. Some may explanations stem different from European of the these fact gaps that countries, in there are differences in the recognition and