Prisoners Rights
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. prisoners while adult female prisoners shared space with juvenile females.
No person who is arrested shall be detained in custody without being informed, as soon as may be, of the rounds for such arrest, nor shall be denied the right to consult and be defended by a legal practitioner of his choice. Every person who is arrested and detained in custody shall be produced before a magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest. Constitution of Pakistan Article 10(1) and (2) The dignity of man and, subject to law, the privacy of home, shall be inviolable. No person shall be subjected to torture for the purpose of extracting evidence. Article 14(1) and (2)
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 5
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. Article 6 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or
exile.
The harsh conditions of detention in Pakistani prisons remained unchanged in 2015 and a failure to consider alternatives to custodial detention remained the biggest challenges.Far from rehabilitating criminals, the prison system in Pakistan served as a potential breeding ground for radicalisation, criminal activity and disease. Most prisons in the country housed more prisoners than they had been built for and some even housed prisoners in excess of twice their capacity. The overcrowding was the result of an inclination to detain under-trial prisoners, and penal servitude being considered as the most effective punishment for offenders. Overcrowding also did not allow separation of prisoners according to the status of their cases. Convicted prisoners were often housed together with under-trial prisoners while adult female prisoners shared space with juvenile
females. Such conditions of detention not only ignored the dignity and the basic needs of inmates, they also served as a barrier to genuine reform. There were no indications that any substantial reform for the prison system was being contemplated in the near future.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 5
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. Article 6 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or
exile.
The harsh conditions of detention in Pakistani prisons remained unchanged in 2015 and a failure to consider alternatives to custodial detention remained the biggest challenges.Far from rehabilitating criminals, the prison system in Pakistan served as a potential breeding ground for radicalisation, criminal activity and disease. Most prisons in the country housed more prisoners than they had been built for and some even housed prisoners in excess of twice their capacity. The overcrowding was the result of an inclination to detain under-trial prisoners, and penal servitude being considered as the most effective punishment for offenders. Overcrowding also did not allow separation of prisoners according to the status of their cases. Convicted prisoners were often housed together with under-trial prisoners while adult female prisoners shared space with juvenile
females. Such conditions of detention not only ignored the dignity and the basic needs of inmates, they also served as a barrier to genuine reform. There were no indications that any substantial reform for the prison system was being contemplated in the near future.