Council of Europe (CoE)

Index
- Council of Europe
- Basic human rights
- Transfer of sentenced persons
- Treatment of prisoners
- Torture and inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment
- Alternatives to imprisonment and prison leave
- Life sentence
Council of Europe
Statute of the Council of Europe (pdf, 296 kB)
Basic human rights
European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) (pdf, 1,2 MB)
Transfer of sentenced persons
- Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (pdf, 211 kB)
- Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (pdf, 28 kB)
- Recommendation Concerning the Practical Application of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1988) (pdf, 243 kB)
- Recommendation Concerning the Practical Application of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1992) (pdf, 394 kB)
Treatment of prisoners
- Resolution on Electoral, Civil and Social Rights of Prisoners (pdf, 325 kB)
- Resolution on Research on Prisoners Considered from the Individual Angle and on the Prison Community (pdf, 183 kB)
- Recommendation on the Custody and Treatment of Dangerous Prisoners (pdf, 132 kB)
- Recommendation on a Co-ordinated European Health Policy to Prevent the Spread of Aids in Prisons (pdf, 142 kB)
- Recommendation on Education in Prison (pdf, 122 kB)
- Recommendation Concerning the Ethical and Organisational Aspects of Health Care in Prison (pdf, 1,1 MB)
- Recommendation Concerning Prison Overcrowding and Prison Population Inflation (pdf, 144 kB)
- Recommendation Concerning Prison and Criminological Aspects of the Control of Transmissible Diseases Including Aids and Related Health Problems in Prison (pdf, 706 kB)
- Recommendation on the Use of Remand in Custody, the Conditions in Which it Takes Place and the Provision of Safeguards Against Abuse (pdf, 148 kB)
- Recommendation on the European Prison Rules (pdf, 80 kB)
- Recommendation on the European Rules for Juvenile Offenders Subject to Sanctions or Measures (pdf, 97 kB)
- Recommendation Concerning Foreign Prisoners (pdf, 153 kB)
- Recommendation on the European Code of Ethics for Prison Staff (pdf, 129 kB)
- Recommendation on Staff Concerned with the Implementation of Sanctions and Measures (pdf, 1,4 MB)
Torture and inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment
Alternatives to imprisonment and prison leave
- European Convention on the Supervision of Conditionally Sentenced or Conditionally Released Offenders (pdf, 51 kB)
- Resolution on the Practical Organisation of Measures for the Supervision and After-Care of Conditionally Sentenced or Conditionally Released Offenders (pdf, 462 kB)
- Recommendation concerning the Application of the European Convention on the Supervision of Conditionally Sentenced or Conditionally Released Offenders (pdf, 167 kB)
- Recommendation on Prison Leave (pdf, 170 kB)
- Recommendation on the European Rules on Community Sanctions and Measures (pdf, 1,6 MB)
- Recommendation Concerning Mediation in Penal Matters (pdf, 87 kB)
- Recommendation on Improving the Implementation of the European Rules on Community Sanctions and Measures (pdf, 206 kB)
- Recommendation Concerning Conditional Release (Parole) (pdf, 29 kB)
- Recommendation on the Council of Europe Probation Rules (pdf, 70 kB)