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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | LIBE | TURCO Maurizio (NI) |
Legal Basis RoP 134-p3
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2004/03/09
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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T5-0142/2004
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Parliament adopted by 439 votes in favour, 49 against and 20 abstentions an own-initiative report drafted by Maurizio TURCO (IND, I) on the rights of prisoners in the EU. According to Council of Europe statistics, on 1 September 2002, a total of 539 436 persons were being held in prison in the enlarged European Union. These statistics paint an alarming picture regarding overcrowding, excessive increase in the prison population, rise in the number of foreign nationals being held, high numbers of remand prisoners and numerous cases of death and suicide. Accordingly, it calls on the Council and the Member States to encourage the drawing up a European Prisons Charter covering all the Council of Europe's Member States. Such a Charter would have to incorporate detailed rules, binding on the Member States, concerning a prisoner's right to: - access to a lawyer, to healthcare and to notify a third person that he or she has been detained, - the right to physical and mental safety, - prison conditions, - the right of access to internal and, if necessary, external medical services, - re-education, training, rehabilitation and reintegration into society and the workforce, - the separation of categories of detained persons: juveniles, persons on remand, convicted criminals.�
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T5-0142/2004
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- 2004/02/19 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2003/09/22
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
- 2003/09/09 Non-legislative basic document published
Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: B5-0362/2003
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A5-0094/2004
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0142/2004
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