Contemporary trends for the treatment of the prisoner in the light of the minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners

Abstract

The issue of the prisoners' rights and the way of dealing with them is not just a minor or
primary issue according to the contemporary attitudes to deal with criminals, but it is a fatal
issue that goes with the development of life and comprehension of human rights. As the
criminal is considered as a human-being who can be reformed and qualified, according to the
aims of the contemporary social service the prisoner is regarded as an idle human source who
can be reformed, treated and qualified so as to make him participate to improve his family and
society in the end.
This study aims at reconstructing the prisons bases when applying the laws of the lowest
level of treatment through the research of oppositions, attitudes in some prisons laws in Iraq
and among the lowest level rules in treating prisoners and these rules which were
accomplished in the first conference of the United States of preservation from crime and
Criminals treatment in Geneva convention in 1955.
The most important results this study reached are as follows;
-Policy of the Iraqi criminal laws still depends on the policy (The Negative Punishment to
freedom )as a basic punishment which overcomes its decisions that dominate its decisions.
And it was reflected on the prisons positions that we find most of the Iraqi prisons suffer from
being over crowded with prisoners. That caused to the unability to classify them ,besides the
weakness of education and health service. Consequently ,the reforming states will be far away
from its role which is reforming ,qualifying and treating criminals each one according to his
case to requalifying them to the society.
-Most of the reforming organizations ,especially the managers and the staff (for the reform
view)that shows ''Applying the negative punishment to freedom in such circumstances that
the reforming and educational attitude become weak and becom costly for both the society
and the state equally.