United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) 2015, para. 1
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The treatment of prisoners should emphasize not their exclusion from the community but their continuing part in it. Community agencies should therefore be enlisted wherever possible to assist the prison staff in the task of social rehabilitation of the prisoners.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Persons on the move
Year
2015
Paragraph type
Rule
Reference
UNGA resolution, United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) (2015), A/RES/70/175, Rule 88, 1.