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Prisoners’ views on human rights point out the need to tap the proactive function of human rights, currently found in soft human rights law, as the way to embed human rights in prison life. Human rights recognition demonstrates the primacy of rehabilitation, resocialisation and reintegration as prison aims, which are enabled through effective human rights protection. Drawing on negative and positive rights, as well as negative and positive state interference in respect of their protection, prisoners credit the proactive function with an educative, a psychotherapeutic, a humanising, and an emancipatory potential.
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Karamalidou, A. (2017). Embedding Human Rights in Prison. In: Embedding Human Rights in Prison. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58502-8_7
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