{"title":"The Fifth Prerequisite: Ensure Decent Physical Conditions in All Prisons","authors":"A. Mackay","doi":"10.22459/thrcap.2020.08","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Perhaps it is for this reason that complaints about deficiencies in the physical conditions within prisons form a large proportion of the international communications to treaty monitoring bodies about the application of human rights law in prisons. Decent prison conditions are important for ensuring an absence of ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’ (TCID) (particularly important for compliance with the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other","PeriodicalId":375196,"journal":{"name":"Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22459/thrcap.2020.08","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Perhaps it is for this reason that complaints about deficiencies in the physical conditions within prisons form a large proportion of the international communications to treaty monitoring bodies about the application of human rights law in prisons. Decent prison conditions are important for ensuring an absence of ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’ (TCID) (particularly important for compliance with the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other