This is a first-hand account of the often appalling conditions in
prisons, police stations, psychiatric institutions, detention
centres and other places where individuals are deprived of their
liberty. It is based on extensive inspections in many countries in
Europe, including the UK, France, Spain, Greece and Turkey, by a
group of inspectors who had hitherto unparalleled access to
institutions of detention.
Inhuman States is a gripping account of the seamy side of
Europe, of those 'social dustbins' that most people tend to ignore
and of the practices - including torture - which take place within
them. But it is also a book about some general concepts - what is
'human'? What should 'inhuman' or 'degrading' mean? Should general
standards be uniformly applied to countries with diverse
traditions, legal systems and conditions of life?
This book is also a forceful plea for a better and more
civilized Europe. Cassese argues that Europe should be unified not
only in the field of markets, banks, lawyers, and commerce: an
effort should also be made to set out and implement at least some
common European standards of justice with regard to those places of
detention where each country relegates its misfits, deviants and
all those who are thought to imperil the social fabric.
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