Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 19 relations: Consciousness raising, Discrimination, Geneva, Hygiene, International law, Mandela Day, Municipal law, Nelson Mandela, Penal Reform International, Prison, Prison uniform, Prisoners' rights, Rehabilitation (penology), Slavery, Soft law, United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, United Nations Economic and Social Council, United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Standard Minimum Rules.

2. Penal imprisonment

Consciousness raising

Consciousness raising (also called awareness raising) is a form of activism popularized by United States feminists in the late 1960s.

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Discrimination

Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

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Hygiene

Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health.

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International law

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

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Mandela Day

Nelson Mandela International Day (or Mandela Day) is an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each year on 18 July, Mandela's birthday.

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Municipal law

Municipal law is the national, domestic, or internal law of a sovereign state and is defined in opposition to international law.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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Penal Reform International

Penal Reform International (commonly known as PRI), founded in London in 1989, is an international nongovernmental organization working on penal and criminal justice reform worldwide.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.

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Prison uniform

A prison uniform is a set of standardized clothing worn by prisoners. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and prison uniform are penal imprisonment.

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Prisoners' rights

The rights of civilian and military prisoners are governed by both national and international law. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and Prisoners' rights are penal imprisonment.

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Rehabilitation (penology)

Rehabilitation is the process of re-educating those who have committed a crime and preparing them to re-enter society.

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Slavery

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.

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Soft law

The term soft law refers to quasi-legal instruments (like recommendations or guidelines) which do not have any legally binding force, or whose binding force is somewhat weaker than the binding force of traditional law.

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United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

The United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice is a United Nations (UN) sponsored congress on the topics of crime, crime prevention and criminal justice, held every five years.

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United Nations Economic and Social Council

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialized agencies, the eight functional commissions, and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction.

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United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.

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United Nations Standard Minimum Rules

The United Nations has adopted sets of Standard Minimum Rules addressing the following topics.

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See also

Penal imprisonment

• Bagne
• Belly chain (restraint)
• Black site
• Box (torture)
• CIA black sites
• Carceral feminism
• Compassionate release
• Compter
• Conjugal visit
• Custodial sentence
• Dry cell (prison)
• European Prison Rules
• Foot whipping
• Foreign languages in prisons
• Handcuff cover
• Indefinite imprisonment
• Inmate video visitation
• Innocent prisoner's dilemma
• Life imprisonment
• List of longest prison sentences
• List of longest prison sentences served
• Lockdown
• Lockstep
• Penal harm
• Penal labour
• Prison abolition movement
• Prison cell
• Prison consultant
• Prison gangs
• Prison library
• Prison register
• Prison ring
• Prison tattooing
• Prison uniform
• Prison violence
• Prison warden
• Prisoner transport
• Prisoners' rights
• Prisons
• Privatization in criminal justice
• R(89)12
• Rendition aircraft
• Separate system
• Single-celling
• Solitary confinement
• Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Minimum_Rules_for_the_Treatment_of_Prisoners

Also known as Mandela Rules, Nelson Mandela Rules, UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.