Sourcebook on solitary confinement
The Sourcebook on solitary confinement provides a comprehensive single point of reference on solitary confinement, its documented health effects, and professional, ethical and human rights guidelines and codes of practice relating to its use. It is hoped that the Sourcebook will encourage policy makers and prison managers to put in place safeguards and mechanisms to limit the use of solitary confinement and to mitigate its harmful consequences.
Work on the Sourcebook was carried out with the generous support of the Nuffield Foundation's Access to Justice Programme.
Full sourcebook:
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- Front pages
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The health effects of solitary confinement
- Chapter 3: The decision to place prisoners and detainees in solitary confinement
- Chapter 4: Design, physical conditions and regime in solitary confinement units
- Chapter 5: Ethics in prison medicine
- Chapter 6: Inspection and monitoring
- Chapter 7: Summary of recommendations
- End pages
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