PUBLICATIONS
January 1, 2009
Handbook for Prisoners with Special Needs
Corrections
Handbook for Prisoners with Special Needs
DATE
January 1, 2009
AUTHORS
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
YEARS
2009
POLICIES
Corrections
Handbook for Prisoners with Special Needs
This handbook covers the special needs of eight groups of prisoners, which have a particularly vulnerable status in prisons. They are: Prisoners with mental health care needs; Prisoners with disabilities; Ethnic and racial minorities and indigenous peoples; Foreign national prisoners; Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) prison- ers; Older prisoners; Prisoners with terminal illness and Prisoners under sentence of death. All information, guidelines and recommendations provided for these groups apply to adult male and female members of these categories of prisoners.
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