References: Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

UN OHCHR, Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

UN Office of Drugs and Crime, International Penal and Penitentiary Commission

UN General Assembly Resolution 2858, Human Rights in the Administration of Justice

UN General Assembly A/65/230, requesting (operative paragraph 10) that the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice establish an open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group on the revision of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

Working Group on Human Rights, Human Rights and Corrections: A Strategic Model, Ottawa: Correctional Service of Canada, 1997. [The report is no longer online at Correctional Service of Canada website.]

Related rules and international instruments

Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment (1988)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1987)

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976)

UN Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty (1990)

UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Measures for Women Offenders (2010)