Prisoners' rights

Rights and advocacy by country

Asia

• Prisons in India
• Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• * Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights
• * 2010 Iranian political prisoners' hunger strike for prisoners' rights
• Human rights in China
• * Penal system in China
• * Laogai
• * Xinjiang re-education 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

  Europe

• Prison conditions in France
• Prisons in Germany
• Human right of prisoners in Israel
• * Palestinian prisoners of Israel
• 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
• * Voting Eligibility 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
• * Notable groups:
• **November Coalition
• **Critical Resistance and Incite!
• **Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
• **Black and Pink
• *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