Prisons

(asked on 8th September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of states party to the European Convention on Human Rights whose prisons breach any term of that convention.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 13th October 2014

No such estimate has been made. However, information on states party to the European Convention on Human Rights whose prisons have caused them to be found to be in violation of the Convention by the European Court of Human Rights can be found on the Court’s searchable database at:

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx#{%22documentcollectionid2%22:[%22GRANDCHAMBER%22,%22CHAMBER%22]}

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We remain alert to the fact that legal challenges in relation to poor prison conditions may create obstacles to prisoner transfers. We are aware of one ongoing case within the European Union where prison conditions have been raised as a reason to prevent transfer proceedings but this is still subject to ongoing appeal.

We are at an early stage of testing compulsory prisoner transfers to non-European Union countries and have not received any challenges of this nature to date.

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