CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction 2
Understanding dignity and security in prisons
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1. Dignity in detention: a fundamental right
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2. Security in detention: a legitimate concern
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3. The relationship between dignity and security in detention
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4. Legality, necessity and proportionality of security measures
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5. Public attitudes and societal context
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Risk factors deriving from an overemphasis on security
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1. Institution in charge of prisons
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2. Over-classification
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3. Instruments of restraint
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4. Body searches
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5. Isolation and solitary confinement
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6. ‘Super-max’ prisons
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7. The overuse of technology and surveillance
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8. Staff-prisoner relations and inter-prisoner violence
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9. Prisoners’ clothes
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How can monitoring bodies address the balance between security and dignity?
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