Nelson Mandela Rules
Definition
The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, revised and renamed by the UN General Assembly in December 2015, setting the baseline international standards on prison conditions and treatment.
Related terms
- Custodial Death
- A death occurring while a person is in police or judicial custody, tracked separately in official statistics because it signals possible failures...
- Overcrowding
- A prison population that exceeds its officially sanctioned or design capacity, usually expressed as an occupancy percentage or ratio of inmates to...
- Dietary Scale
- An official schedule specifying the quantity, calorie content, and nutritional composition of food a prison must serve, often varying by labour classification,...
- Non-Custodial Measures
- Sentences or pre-trial measures that do not involve imprisonment, such as probation, community service, suspended sentences, fines and diversion, the subject of...
- Soft Law
- A standard adopted by an international body, such as a General Assembly resolution, that carries persuasive and interpretive weight but is not...
- Tokyo Rules
- The UN Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures, adopted by UN General Assembly resolution 45/110 in 1990, setting safeguards for probation, community...
- Undertrial Prisoner
- A person held in custody while awaiting or undergoing trial, not yet convicted, a category that forms the majority of the prison...
- Correctional Understaffing
- A shortfall in the sanctioned strength of prison staff, particularly custodial, medical, and correctional (welfare and vocational) cadres, relative to the population...
- Deliberate Indifference
- Also called 'willful blindness' or 'conscious avoidance' in some jurisdictions: the doctrine that a defendant cannot escape knowledge of a fact by...
- Fair Trial
- The bundle of procedural guarantees, including an independent tribunal, adequate notice of the charge, and a genuine opportunity to answer it, that...
- Parole
- Conditional early release from a custodial sentence after a portion has been served. The released person remains under supervision and subject to...
- Presumption of Innocence
- The rule that the prosecution carries the burden of proving guilt beyond reasonable doubt and the accused is treated as innocent until...
Explained in these topics
- Challenges in Correctional Administration
- Human Rights of Accused, Victims and Prisoners (UGC-NET Unit V)The revised UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, adopted in 2015, setting global benchmarks on accommodation, medical care and limits on s...
- Nelson Mandela Rules and Tokyo Rules (UGC-NET Unit VII)The 2015 revision of the 1955 Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, setting minimum conditions and due process protections for people held in...
- Prison Accommodation, Food and Medical Care (UGC-NET Unit VIII)The 2015 revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, 122 non-binding rules covering accommodation, food, healthcare and other con...
- Prison Conditions: Accommodation, Food, and Healthcare StandardsThe 2015 revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, a non-binding set of 122 international standards covering accommodation, foo...
- UN Standards for Offender Treatment: the Nelson Mandela Rules and the Tokyo RulesThe UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners as revised and adopted by UN General Assembly resolution 70/175 in 2015, named after Nelson Mandel...