Escorting Prisoners with Physical Disabilities
Keywords:
Legislation, International Standards, Prisoner’s Rights, Protection, Escorting, Escorted Persons, Persons with Disabilities, Searches.Abstract
The present article analyses the challenges and discusses possible solutions connected with transportation (escorting) of prisoners with disabilities. It is noteworthy that, in general, very few materials are available regarding the procedure of escorting prisoners. The standards regulating the transportation of persons with disabilities (PWDs) is especially scarce. Therefore, the existing research papers do not offer any efficient solutions to the issue. The article studies those risks and problems that might be related to transferring prisoners with disabilities and specificities of their transportation; the article also discusses specific approaches set by international standards; it also analyses the practice of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), according to which the violations made during the transportation of prisoners were determined to be in violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).[1]
The purpose of the article is to show the gaps in the Georgian reality and to offer specific recommendations to the penitentiary system of Georgia, which would allow the elimination of these gaps.
[1] Council of Europe, European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 4 November 1950, ETS 5, Article 3.
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