Shackling prisoners in hospital
- 27 January 1996
- Vol. 312 (7025) , 200
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7025.200
Abstract
Maternity service organisations have already condemned the home secretary's response, and have extended their objections to the shackling of all woman prisoners, arguing that the practice is illegal under national and international law. The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights says that no one should be subjected to degrading punishment, and the United Nations standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners state that chains shall not be used as restraints.2 3 Although shackling may seem more abhorrent in women than it does in men, in both sexes it …Keywords
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