Prisoners' rights

Rights and advocacy by country

Asia

• Prisons in India
• Prisoners' rights in the Middle East
  • Prisoners' rights in Israel
    • Palestinian prisoners of Israel
  • Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
    • Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights (Iran)
    • 2010 Iranian political prisoners' hunger strike for prisoners' rights
• Human rights in China
  • Penal system in China
  • Laogai
  • Xinjiang internment camps
  • Notable prisons:
    • Qincheng Prison
    • Tilanqiao Prison
• Penal system of Japan
• Malaysian Prison Department
  • Caning in Malaysia
  • 2020 Malaysia movement control order
• Human rights in North Korea
  • Prisons in North Korea
  • Kwalliso
    • Hoeryong concentration camp
• Prisons in Pakistan
• Re-education camp (Vietnam)

Europe

• Prison conditions in France
• Prisons in Germany
• Crime in Italy
  • Article 41-bis prison regime
• Human rights in Russia
  • Prisoners' Union
  • Human rights in the Soviet Union
  • Gulag
• United Kingdom prison population
  • Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners
  • Hirst v United Kingdom (No 2)
  • Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill
  • 1981 Irish hunger strike
• Children of Prisoners Europe

North America

• Incarceration in Canada
  • Correctional Service of Canada
  • John Howard Society
• In the United States:
  • Human rights in the United States
  • Incarceration in the United States
  • Prisoner rights in the United States
    • Decarceration in the United States
    • Prisoner abuse in the United States
    • Felony disenfranchisement in the United States
    • Penal labor in the United States
    • Prison rape in the United States
    • Organ donation in the United States prison population
    • Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons
    • Political prisoners in the United States
  • Notable groups:
    • November Coalition
    • Critical Resistance and Incite!
    • Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
    • Black and Pink
    • Prisoners Rights Union
  • Notable events:
    • 1971 Attica Prison riot
    • 1973 Wapole Prison uprising
    • Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
    • Guantanamo Bay detention camp
    • Orleans Parish Prison abandonment during Hurricane Katrina
    • 2013 California prisoner hunger strike
    • 2016 U.S. prison strike
    • 2018 U.S. prison strike
  • Chain gang
  • Convict leasing

Oceania

• Punishment in Australia
  • Indonesian children in Australian prisons
• Prisoners' rights in New Zealand
  • Voting rights of prisoners in New Zealand
• Human rights in Vanuatu

International

• Prisoners' rights in international law
• Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
• List of countries by incarceration rate
• List of hunger strikes
• List of prisons
• Penal Reform International