Introducing Human Rights in Prisons

Abstract

First encounters matter. Encounters can be intimate or at arm’s length, but either way, they matter. Enduring encounters matter even more — indeed, they are critical. These are the key lessons of this book, the key findings of a research project spanning 2012–2013 documenting and exploring the constitutive encounter between prisons and rights-based non-governmental organisations (henceforth ‘NGOs’) in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and the Philippines.