Prison law / Stephen Livingstone, Tim Owen, Alison Macdonald.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.

3rd edition

24579

Prisons -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.

Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain.

1. The legal framework and administrative structure of the prison system

2. Avenues of redress: domestic law

3. International law avenues of redress

4. Security categorization and allocation

5. Living conditions in prison

6. Healthcare in prisons

7. Access to the outside world and maintenance of family contacts

8. Inner-prison transfers and the repatration of prisoners from abroad

9. Prison discipline

10. Maintaining good order and discipline

11. Women prisoners

12. Release from prison: fixed term prisoners

13. Mandatory lifers

14. Discretionary lifers and HMP detainees

15. Detention under the Immigration Act

16. Conclusions: prisons and the law.

Includes bibliography and index.

0199258996

lxxx, 797 p.