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This chapter will explore: the history of punishment and loss of rights; international guidance and domestic legislation on prisoners’ rights; the Prison Rules 1999 and prisoners’ rights; and Civil rights of prisoners, focusing on one of the most contentious of these rights, enfranchisement.

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    Cormac Behan

  2. School of Justice, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

    Abigail Stark

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Behan, C., Stark, A. (2023). Prisoners’ Rights. In: Prisons and Imprisonment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09301-2_9

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