Our book Just Prisons: Requests and Complaints in Prisons in Europe (eds: Tom Daems & Elena Larrauri) got published with Palgrave Macmillan, in the Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology – series.
From the blurb: “This edited book explores how requests and complaints by prisoners are being dealt with by prison governors/administrations or independent bodies (such as complaint commissions), in different parts of Europe. It asks who complains and why? How are complaints from prisoners being dealt with, from a legal and empirical point of view? How do procedures work and can they be considered effective? Should administrative procedures be exhausted before appealing to a judge? It explores whether such systems comply with international regulation, such as the European Prison Rules, the UN Mandela Rules or the case-law of the ECtHR. It speaks to academics, NGOs and lawyers with an interest in prison law, human rights bodies and prison monitoring bodies”
With chapters by Tom Daems, Cristina Dâmboeanu, Megan Jansen, Elena Larrauri, Sonja Meijer, Christine Morgenstern, Mary Rogan and Dr Sophie van der Valk.
The first introductory chapter (“Taking Complaints and Requests in Prisons Seriously“) can be read here. More info about the book is available at SpringerLink.
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