Abstract
To what extent do serious offenders, confined in prison for their crimes, retain all or some of their basic human rights? A variety of answers to this question are canvassed, ranging from ones that hold that serious offenders forfeit all or some of their basic rights to ones that hold that prisoners have their liberty rights curtailed but retain other basic rights. A full account of prisoners’ rights is shown to depend upon contested views about the basic rights of individuals and the role of the state in securing them. It also is shown to depend upon how we conceive of the penal sanction scale and the nature of penal severity.
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