About the Book: United Nations and Prison Justice: The Complete Revision of the
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, 1957
The U.N. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners-1957 have nearly
a century of history behind. It was indeed humanitarian in approach to
prisoners. Nearly 60 years have elapsed since the Rules were accepted by the
United Nations. Certainly, the Rules need a revision now because of (1) a long
lapse of six decades, and (2) developments in the fields of correction,
reformation, resocialization, rehabilitation and reintegration of the inmates to
society back. This book contains a complete revision of the existing UNSMR for
the