Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of PrisonersAdopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held at Geneva in 1955, and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolution 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977. |
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217th meeting 30 August accordance adequate administration shall provide administrative authority admission after-care agencies allowed applicable appropriate authorised central prison administration cleanliness climate Committee of Ministers competent convicted prisoners Council of Europe deprivation of liberty destroy any article detained detention dietetics and modern ditions ensure greatest number hygiene and takes imprisonment Individual treatment programmes insti institutions or sections medical officer ment mental health mental illnesses moral necessary on hygienic normal number of prisoners organised penal institutions penal policy personnel persons physical or mental possible principle Prison officers prisoner's Prisoners under sentence proper psychiatric service psychiatrist punishment qualified representative receive visits regulations release prisoners request or complaint safe custody satisfies in quality sentence of suitable sible sick prisoners social rehabilitation staff STANDARD MINIMUM RULES sufficient number Treatment of Offenders treatment of prisoners tutions United Nations untried or convicted untried prisoner ventilation young prisoners