Prison authorities’ failure to provide access to medical care for a prisoner suffering from multiple sclerosis after domestic court had decided that such medical care was necessary to render the applicant’s continued detention compatible with his state of health.
Judgment

Accidental death of a prisoner caused by a drug overdose.
Judgment

Complaint about continuous inhuman and degrading treatment in prison caused by material conditions of detention.
Decision | Legal Summary

Systematic monitoring of the applicant’s correspondence in prison, with the exception of correspondence with her lawyer and several public institutions.
Judgment

Total ban on smoking in prison, also for prisoners with a long-term smoking habit, such as the applicants.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Allegedly insufficient medical assistance, and lack of an effective remedy, to a former member of a municipal council and of Parliament while in detention, and regular sanctions suspending family visits for over two years.
Judgment

Limitation of the applicant’s right to correspondence during his detention under a special regime for imprisoned Mafia members.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Complaint about impending extradition to the USA, which would, if the applicants were to be convicted, allegedly result in a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole if the applicant was to be convicted.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Prison authorities’ refusal to send the applicant’s letter to his fiancée, a paragraph having been interpreted as evidence of his ongoing involvement with a terrorist organisation.
Judgment

Death of the applicant’s son in prison after being restrained in a prone position leg lock for about thirteen minutes, following which he suffered a heart attack.
Judgment

Refusal of prison authorities to hand over to a convicted prisoner voluminous internet printouts sent to him by his relatives by post.
Judgment

Continued placement of an elderly applicant, convicted of leadership of a Mafia-type criminal organisation, under a special restrictive prison regime, despite his progressive cognitive deterioration.
Judgment

Conditions of the applicant’s detention in the quarantine ward and of his transfer to the hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic, and his medical examination whilst allegedly being handcuffed.
Decision

Thorough strip searches systematically carried out on a prisoner, regardless of other security arrangements in place.
Judgment

Conditions of detention pending trial (esp. twenty-three-hour confinement to the applicant’s cell), which lasted approximately one and a half years and which was ordered, inter alia, to prevent the applicant from interfering with the course of justice.
Judgment

Inadequate medical treatment provided to a former Prosecutor General and former Ambassador for his illnesses while in detention during the period between his arrest and his first transfer to a prison medical facility.
Judgment

Clear and realistic prospect of reducibility of life sentences after – but not before – new release on parole mechanism became fully operational.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Restrictions imposed on applicant’s contact with four-year-old son staying with his wife in the same prison.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Death in prison of a drug-addicted prisoner as a result of intoxication by prescribed and non-prescribed drugs.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Refusal to allow transgender person to continue prescribed hormone therapy after transfer in new prison.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Article 14 in conjunction with Article 5: longer period of automatic judicial review of pre-trial detention for minors than for adults prosecuted for the same category of offence.
Judgment

Segregation, restricted access to basic prison resources and denial of human contact of a prisoner by fellow inmates due to subordinate position in informal prisoner hierarchy.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Exclusion of outdoor yards attached to cells in the calculation of prisoners' personal living space.
Judgment

Consecutive enforcement of disciplinary punishments and security measures in prison resulting in protracted periods of solitary confinement.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Prolonged placement of a prisoner, without clothing, in a specially secured padded cell and with lights continuously on.
Judgment

Difference in treatment in early release eligibility between prisoners serving an extended determinate prison sentence vis-à-vis standard determinate sentence prisoners and discretionary life sentence prisoners.
Judgment

Use of pepper spray against a prisoner in an observation cell without prior warning.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Withholding by prison authorities of issues of a periodical sent to prisoners by post without going through administration as required by law.
Judgment | Legal Summary

De facto irreducibility of a life sentence.
Judgment

​Segregation, humiliation and abuse of prisoners by fellow inmates on account of inferior status in informal prisoner hierarchy tolerated by prison staff.
Judgment | Legal Summary 

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

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

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

Blanket ban on prisoners’ voting. 
Judgment | Legal Summary 

Prisoners denied permission to receive visits from their school-age children and to make telephone calls at the weekends.  
Judgment | Legal Summary

Conversion, upon prisoner’s transfer, of a foreign reducible life sentence into an irreducible one due to unavailability of parole for life prisoners in his home State. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Denial of permission for prisoner to attend religious services outside prison during Covid-19 pandemic.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Convicted prisoner statutorily disqualified from old-age pension payments while incarcerated. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

​General and indiscriminate ban on prisoner possession of pornographic material.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Refusal to allocate room in high-security prison to Muslim prisoner for congregational Friday prayers. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Domestic remedies for complaints as to inadequate conditions of detention.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Placement of detainee in high security unit and decision-making process.
Judgment

Continued detention of visually impaired convicted prisoner.  
Judgment

The uploading of prisoners’ correspondence to a judicial IT server.
Judgment

Impossibility of remand prisoners to receive conjugal visits. 
Judgment

Confiscation and destruction of a book manuscript written by a journalist in detention.
Judgment

Detention extended despite terminal condition.
Judgment

Special-needs prisoner's medical care and length of the examination of his request for a licence for prison leave on health grounds.
Judgment

Conditions of detention amid Covid-19 pandemic. Solitary confinement on medical grounds.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Detainee not allowed to have private meetings with his representatives before the Court for a prolonged period of time. Alleged technical issue concerning Rule 39: hinder the exercise.
Judgment