Mathilde Delwaulle

Prisoners' rights Mathilde Delwaulle

Over the decades, legislators have tried to humanize the prison environment by granting new rights to prisoners. Nevertheless, these creative sources of rights come at a time of increasing prison overcrowding and ineffective fundamental rights. Despite the affirmation and consecration of prisoners' rights, they are limited in time and space. On 30 January 2020, France was condemned by the European Court of Human Rights. This is not a new observation. The difficulty of a subject concerning the state of play of the rights of detainees and their evolution attracts to the choices made but also to the intimate conviction of citizens. Many people have the feeling that the rights of persons deprived of their liberties are acquired. However, if the legislator takes into consideration the individual rights of the detainee, under the aegis of human rights, it is not the same for his or her social rights, which are severely restricted. The underlying purpose of this book is to demonstrate the existence of rights and freedoms for persons deprived of liberty but also to demonstrate their ineffectiveness.