The Research On Prisoners’ Human Rights In China

Human rights is an important achievement in human society civilization develops.Modern countries have passed the legislation to determine human rights as the highestgoal of the social development. People need human rights not for daily life, but to livewith dignity. Human rights is the civilization mark which human being is differentfrom the animals and other barbarians. As a special group, the prisoners are dangerousto society. The society also has complex emotion to them. These make the prisonersalmost became the most vulnerable groups in disadvantaged groups. How to treat theprisoners has become a test for the level of human rights development and the processof the civilization development scale. Through the efforts of each country, theprisoners· rights have made the remarkable progress both in the theory and in thepractice. In some countries the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment ofPrisoners” has become an important basis for the protection of the rights reform ofPrisoners. In China, the obligation standardμ has lasted for thousands of years. Thisideological.political and economic system pattern seriously hindered the progress ofhuman rights. And the protection of human rights of prisoners may have greaterfriction. Currently, some domestic proficient focus on the trend of the prisoners’human rights protection. Some people asking specifically that the Standard MinimumRules for the Treatment of Prisonersμ is a high standard. The guarantee of theprisoners· right is transition, and it did not accord with the national conditions ofChina. The practice of the reform about prisoners· protection of rights in China anddiscussion is different. However, different people have different views. Casting asidethe research of prisoners· rights has many kinds of differences and controversial. Thisarticle has studied the trend of human society civilization development of humanrights, and arrived at a conclusion that any country, government and citizen cannotdeny a fact that all of the developments, changes, measures should serve the peoplewith dignity, which is no exception for the prisoners. And then, on the basis of fullyconsider the actual situation in China, conducted a study on the system of rights ofChinese prisoners. In order to make the study more comprehensive, a special rightsystem construction about prisoners was proposed according to the specialcircumstance of death penalty criminal, old, weak, sick and disabled, nationalminority, foreign nationality personnel. Through above-mentioned efforts, this article tries to provide the right manual of prisonersμ for the prison and the relevant lawenforcement departments. This is a highly significant and value job, based on theauthor’s ability and knowledge is limited,the manual may not be complete andreasonable. If more people can do a further research in “the right manual ofprisoners”, the problems about prisoners· right protection law enforcement in ourcountry can be solved. As a result, it will also be a breakthrough achievement for thewhole development of human rights.