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32 Prison J. 113 (1952)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl32 and id is 1 raw text is: DRAFT OF STANDARD MINIMUM RULES FOR THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS (Prepared by the International Pennl and Penitentiary Commission at the request of the United Nations Organizations.) The accompanying historic statement of Rules for the Treat- ment of Prisoners represents an appropriate final act of the I.P.P.C. before surrendering its functions to the United Nations. The following brief history of the origin of this statement hs been supplied by Dr. Thorsten Sellin who served so acceptably as the Executive Secretary of the I.P.P.C. during the process of its liquidation. Editor. In 1933 the International Penal and Penitentiary Con- mission finally approved a set of standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners which was later endorsed by the League of Nations. In 1949, the Commission decided to begin a revision Of the rules and at the same time, the first International Committee of Experts on the prevention of crime and the treatment of offen- ders convoked by the United Nations Secretariat recommended that the UN undertake the preparation of standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners with the hope that some inter- national agreement might be arrived at. The Committee also re- commended that the rules of 1933 be used as the point of de- parture. When the United Nations Secretariat learned of the decision taken by the IPPC it requested the Commission to proceed with its revision and to submit the results to the United Nations for further action. The Commission entrusted the preliminary work to a sub-committee consisting of Mr. Lionel Fox, Chairman O the Prison Commission of England and Wales (Chairman); 1r. Paul Cornil, General secretary of the Ministry of Justice o Belgium, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Brussels and formerly director of the Prison Administration of Belgiumn Mr. Hardy Goransson, Director of the Prison Adminstration o Sweden; Mr. Charles Germain, Director of the Prison Admini stration of France; Mr. Luigi Ferrari, Director of the Prison Administration of Italy; and Professor Jose Beleza dos Santose Dean of the Law School, University of Colmbra, Portugal. The committee met on various occasions and their proposals were discussed at two plenary meetings of the Commission in 1950 and 1951. At the final meeting of the Commission in July 1951 several days were devoted to the preparation of the present draft. It may be of interest to know that at this meeting over a dozen heads of prison administrations were in attendance as delegate' to the Commission. The draft can therefore be regarded as largely a product of the combined experience of practical prison administrators. Perhaps it should be added that the word in mum retained in the title of the draft should, in the opinion Of most members of the Commission, be eliminated. It was retained merely because the 1933 rules were considered as minimum rules. 118

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