Prisoners' rights

Case-Law Guide

The Case-Law Guide provides an overview of Convention case-law on this Transversal Theme.

Transversal Theme Updates

Cases selected for updating the Case-Law Guide.

Deltuva v. Lithuania, no. 38144/20

21/03/23

Restriction on family visits with wife and daughter during pre-trial detention.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Machina v. the Republic of Moldova, no. 69086/14

17/01/23

Alleged infection in prison with a transmissible disease.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Yakovlyev v. Ukraine, no. 42010/18

08/12/22

Force-feeding of prisoner on hunger strike in protest against prison treatment.
Judgment | Legal Summary

View all Prisoners' Rights Updates

Key Themes

Annotated case-lists on a subject of relevance to this Transversal Theme.

Health care in prison

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31/08/22

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Related Key Theme(s) from other Article / Transversal Theme pages

The minimum level of severity test in light of Bouyid v. Belgium (Article 3)

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21/09/22

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Useful Materials

Selected case-law materials concerning this Transversal Theme.

Access to Internet

Accompanied migrant minors in detention

Case-law concerning the European Union

COVID-19 health crisis

Detention and mental health

Detention conditions and treatment of prisoners

Environment

Extradition and life imprisonment

Gender equality

Hunger strikes in detention

Interim measures

Life imprisonment

Migrants in detention

New technologies

Persons with disabilities and the European Convention

Police arrest and assistance of a lawyer

Prisoners' health-related rights

Prisoners' right to vote

Reproductive rights

Right to respect for family life of prisoners in remote penal facilities

Secret detention sites

Sexual orientation issues

Slavery, servitude and forced labour

Terrorism

Unaccompanied migrant minors in detention

Work-related rights

Useful Links

Links to selected websites of relevance to this Transversal Theme.

Committee of Experts on the Operation of European Conventions on Co-operation in Criminal Matters (PC-OC)

Compendium of Conventions, Recommendations and Resolutions relating to Prisons and Community Sanctions and Measures

Conventions under the authority of the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)

Council for Penological Co-operation (PC-CP)

Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics (SPACE)

Country factsheets on Prison and Probation Administrations in the Council of Europe member states

Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: thematic factsheet on Conditions of detention

European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) - Legal Instruments

European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)

European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)

Key Council of Europe Conventions and Recommendations

Prisons and Community Sanctions and Measures

Human rights and prisons

Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT)

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - Terrorism Prevention Branch

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

UNODC Handbook for prison leaders

UNODC Handbook on prisoner file management

UNODC Handbook on prisoners with special needs

UNODC Handbook on Women and Imprisonment

Criminal detention in the EU - conditions and monitoring (FRA)

European Commission

European Council conclusions on alternative measures to detention: the use of non-custodial sanctions and measures in the field of criminal justice

European Judicial Network (EJN)

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Report - Criminal detention conditions in the European Union: rules and reality

Prisons and detention conditions in the EU - a study

Prisons Working Group (RAN PRISONS)

Promoting Professional Prison Practice (EUROPRIS)

Recommendation on the procedural rights of suspects and accused persons subject to pre-trial detention and on material detention conditions

Confederation of European Probation (CEP)

Consensus Statement from the Santa Cruz Summit on Solitary Confinement and Health

Penal Reform International

Penal Reform International - Coronavirus: Healthcare and human rights of people in prison

Prison Insider

ECHR

ECHR-KS