Correcting Correctional Facilities
Category: Civil Rights | Strength: Mild
This esteemed World Assembly,
Believing that a lack of accountability and institutionalized neglect among prison law enforcement in correctional facilities incites and abets in prisoner abuse,
Recognizing correctional facilities to be rehabilitative as well as punitive, and believing common practices such as excessive solitary confinement and unnecessary violence to be counter-productive to this goal,
Hereby:
- Defines the following, for the purposes of this resolution:
- “prisoner” as any person legally held in a correctional facility for a crime they have been convicted of or for governmental investigative purposes, such as a person awaiting trial, questioning, a verdict, sentencing, or any other law enforcement proceeding,
- “solitary confinement” as any practice in which a prisoner is subject to isolation from others, not including guards, law enforcement, or medical authorities, for purposes other than sleep or immediate danger,
- “protective confinement” as any practice in which a prisoner is subject to isolation from others, not including guards and medical authorities, for the purpose of the prisoners own protection,
- “correctional facility” as any jail, prison, or facility designed to hold an incarcerated person or persons.
- Criminalizes solitary confinement or protective confinement within member-nations, where it can reasonably be assumed to be maddening or otherwise cause or amplify psychological harm,
- Bars law enforcement entities from subjecting individuals under the age of majority with solitary confinement,
- Clarifies that prisoners which pose a credible safety risk may be isolated from other prisoners or guards, to the extent that the isolation will prevent the credible safety concerns from coming to fruition.
- Bans the usage of excessive force on prisoners, such as hurting an incapacitated person, or using unnecessary lethal force, except when authorized in a sentencing in criminal or civil proceedings,
- Law enforcement authorities convicted of using excessive or unauthorized lethal force against a prisoner shall be sentenced to a punishment no less than sentences imposed upon a member of the public for equal or similar crimes.
- Bans the intentional humiliation of prisoners by law enforcement entities through methods such as, but not limited to, strip or cavity searches,
- Demands, as an alternative to prohibited solitary confinement, humiliation, or excessive force, humane methods such as delayed parole, revocation of abilities to participate in group activities not necessary for life, impounding luxuries, and/or loss of privileges such as visitation,
- Retains that any administrators of any correctional facility or other facility which holds prisoners must allow said prisoners to file an official complaint with the World Assembly Solicitors Office in any case of breach of World Assembly law within the correctional facility of which they are held.