Prisoners as citizens : human rights in Australian prisons / edited by David Brown and Meredith Wilkie.

Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Pr, 2002.

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Prisons -- Australia.

Prisoners -- Australia.

Prisoners -- Australia -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Human rights -- Australia.

Part 1. Prisons and prisoners: 1. Prisoners and the penal estate in Australia / Russell Hogg

Impacts of overcrowding

2. The rights of indigenous prisoners / Loretta Kelly

Prisoners at risk

3. Deprivation of liberty : deprivation of rights / Debbie Kilroy and Anne Warner

Family

4. Experiences of inmates with an intellectual disability / Jenny Green

Staying healthy in prison

5. Prisoners of difference / Greta Bird

Catering for prisoners speaking English as a second language

Part 2. Regulating prisons and prisoners' rights: 6. Not the King's enemies : prisoners and their rights in Australian history / Mark Finnane and Tony Woodyatt

Law and order (a poem) / Noel Han

7. Televising the invisible : prisoners, prison reform and the media / Catharine Lumby

Queensland prisons : 1980s and 1990s / Margaret Reynolds, former Queensland Senator (ALP)

8. Institutional perspectives and constraints / John Dawes

9. Protection of prisoners' rights in Australian private prisons / John Rynne

Impacts of privatisation

10. Prisoners as citizens : a view from Europe / Vivien Stern

Part 3. Citizenship and rights: 11. Internatinal human rights law applicable to prisoners / Camille Giffard

12. An insider's view : human rights and excursions from the flat lands / Craig W J Minogue

Legal assistance

13. Segregation / David Robinson

Prison discipline

14. Prisoners' right to health and safety / Michael Levy

Health Care

15. Crime victims and prisoners' rights / Sam Garkawe

Preparing for release

16. Prisoners and the right to vote / Melinda Ridley-Smith and Ronnit Redman

17. Prisoners as citizens / David Brown

Appendix : Correctional authorities' responses to prisoners' submissions.

Includes bibliography and index.

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