Towards a health-informedStandards
approachand
to penal
reform?
Evidence from ten countries
Further
Reading
WHO Regional Office for Europe. The Madrid Recommendation: Health protection in prisons as an essential part
of public health. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2010. http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/
pdf_file/0012/111360/E93574.pdf?ua=1
Regional human rights instruments
African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (The Banjul Charter). Adopted June 27, 1981, OAU Doc. CAB/
LEG/67/3 rev. 5, 21 I.L.M. 58 (1982), entered into force Oct. 21, 1986. Article 16. http://www.achpr.org/files/
instruments/achpr/banjul_charter.pdf
Guidelines on the Conditions of Arrest, Police Custody and Pre-trial Detention in Africa (the Luanda Guidelines)
adopted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Commission) during its 55th Ordinary
Session in Luanda, Angola, from 28 April to 12 May 2014. Guidelines 16 (d), 25 (g, h), 32 (b (v, vii)) http://www.
achpr.org/files/instruments/guidelines_arrest_detention/guidelines_on_arrest_police_custody_detention.pdf
American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on
June 2, 1998. Article XI. https://www.oas.org/dil/access_to_information_human_right_American_Declaration_
of_the_Rights_and_Duties_of_Man.pdf
Recommendation R (2006)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the European Prison
Rules. Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 11 January 2006 at the 952nd meeting of the Ministers’
Deputies. Rules 12.1, 15.1f, 16a, 18.1, 22.1, 39-48. https://search.coe.int/cm/Pages/result_details.
aspx?ObjectID=09000016805d8d25
Recommendation R (99) 22 concerning prison overcrowding and prison population inflation. Adopted by the
Committee of Ministers on 30 September 1999 at the 681st meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies. Principle 7.
https://pjp-eu.coe.int/documents/3983922/6970334/
CMRec+%2899%29+22+concerning+prison+overcrowding+and+prison+population+inflation.pdf/1d28cea831d2-4e2f-911c-870119b189c9
Further reading
Coyle A and Fair H (2018) A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff.
London: Institute for Criminal Policy Research. http://www.prisonstudies.org/sites/default/files/resources/
downloads/handbook_3rd_ed_english_v6_web.pdf
Coyle A and Stern V (2004) ‘Captive Populations: Prison health care’ in Accessing health care: Responding to
diversity, Healy, Judith and McKee, Martin (eds.) Oxford University Press: New York, pp 109 – 125. https://www.
amazon.co.uk/Accessing-Health-Care-Responding-Diversity/dp/0198516185
International Committee of the Red Cross (2013) Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Habitat in Prisons:
Supplementary Guidance. Geneva: ICRC https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/files/publications/icrc-002-4083.
pdf
International Committee of the Red Cross (2013) Guidelines for Investigating Deaths In Custody. Geneva: ICRC
https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/files/publications/icrc-002-4126.pdf
Lines R (2008) ‘The right to health of prisoners in international human rights law’ in International Journal of
Prisoner Health, March 2008; 4(1): 3 – 53. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18382849
O’Moore E and Peden J (2018) Improving the health and wellbeing for women in prison. London: Public Health
England https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/03/08/improving-the-health-and-wellbeing-for-women-inprison/
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