EU GUIDELINES ON FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF IN PRISON
Keywords:
religion’s right, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, American Convention on Human Rights, UN Declaration of the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of DiscriminationAbstract
Religion’s right occupies a particular place within prison. In Europe prisons are state institutions, places in which the state keeps people who were sentenced for having committed crimes in detention, limiting their freedom and thereby punishing them in the name of the society it represents.
Why do we have to deal with this question? Kent R. Kerley answer for my question: “After the family the faith was the second major factor that ex-prisoners
motivate to make positive changes in their lives following release.” However, religion is in principle part of a protected private sphere, that of religious freedom, which is a human right, even in prison. European prison institutions are not permitted to deprive individuals of them of conscience or religion. Although a particular frame of security and deprivation is set.
