Thoughts as I'm going through the current draft:
- "Resolved" is an awkward tense for the opening line when the next one is active.
- The original text made a point of defining protective confinement as "severe" isolation, which was distinct from punitive confinement's "total" isolation. Why did you choose to combine these in your definition?
- The wording of the definition is a bit busy too, and because of that it carries the unfortunate implication that a prisoner may be isolated from inmates if prison staff pose a threat to them. You can see how this would really easily lead to abuses. If you're going to keep this form for the definition, consider lengthening it to distinguish between threats to and toward the isolated prisoner to eliminate loopholes.
- That said, I think the handling of confinement as written is pretty messy and inconsistent. The definition in clause 1 includes causes for their being confined, but 2(d) lists different criteria. For the sake of legibility, these really have to be made consistent. If it were me, I might cut down clause 1 to just read "Defines protective confinement as the imprisonment of a person with near to total isolation from other inmates," make slight adjustments to 2(d) as necessary in this light, and modify 2(e) to read "Placing a prisoner in protective confinement [etc.]" so as to consistently use your established definition.
- I didn't like 2(a)'s benchmark being PoWs at first, but after looking over
GAR#18, I do feel better about the baseline protections and living standards it offers.
- In the interest of honesty, I was critical of an earlier draft for not addressing forced labour without realizing it was already covered by
GAR#23. That said, I do think your provisions on this are solid and provide useful developments. My only concern would be whether the inclusion of "activity" in 2(b) could overly restrict prisons' ability to wrangle inmates when necessary.
Overall, I'm quite pleased with how this resolution has developed, and am prepared to make a positive recommendation if the above concerns are addressed.