Persons in detention shall be subject to treatment appropriate to their unconvicted status. |
The real irony of the situation at Barlinnie is that untried, unconvicted prisoners face the worst conditions. |
In 2000 the courts declared unlawful the standard police practice of hanging on, forever, to DNA records of unconvicted people. |
They were entitled to be treated in the same way as the rest of the unconvicted population, they said. |
The question then is whether the untried and unconvicted Guantanamo inmates require that level of security? |
In practice, the right of unconvicted prisoners to vote in general elections is limited. |