Labouring behind bars: assessing international law on working prisoners
Jarman, Ben and Heard, Catherine (2023) Labouring behind bars: assessing international law on working prisoners. Technical Report. Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research, London, UK.
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Abstract
ICPR’s new briefing paper, “Labouring Behind Bars”, explores work in prison through the lens of international human rights law. This is the first of a series of publications in the project ‘Unlocking potential: towards effective, sustainable, and ethical provision of work opportunities for prisoners and prison leavers’. The briefing—along with a detailed Appendix—assesses and critiques the applicable law and highlights the outdated nature of key binding norms governing prison work. It also identifies gaps between claimed benefits and actual prisoner work conditions. It assesses the existing international legal framework, revealing conceptual gaps and inconsistencies across standards. These gaps, we suggest, may result in prisoners being exploited in ways unforeseen by the framers of international laws.
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| Item Type: | Monograph (Technical Report) |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | forced labour conventions, human rights, international human rights standards, international prison research, labour rights, prison labour, work in prison |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Crime & Justice Policy Research, Institute for |
| Depositing User: | Ben Jarman |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2024 15:42 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2024 17:17 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53263 |
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