Table of Contents
Foreword
Robert Badinter
Preface
Mary Robinson
Chapter 1. Journey of a Generation
- From the arid plains to the city
- Starting in politics
- From activism to repression
- The experience of torture
- The experience of prison
- A different way of learning about politics
Chapter 2. From Revolution to the Defence of Freedom
- In praise of pluralism
- Reaching out to the world
- Defending the rights of all: the creation of PRI
- North and South, a false dichotomy
- Humanising prison
Chapter 3. Crime and Punishment
- Dispensing justice
- Only for the powerful…
- Parallel justice… …or alternative justice?
- A diverse situation worldwide
- Justice and prison
Chapter 4. Prisons – a World Apart
- Overcrowding in prisons
- The United States, Russia and their emulators
- Old and new offences
- A crisis of criminal justice
- Dramatic health and social problems
- Halting the mindless reaction
Chapter 5. Prison – a Caricature of Society
- The rich and the rest
- Fear, order and violence
- Risky cohabitation
- A pathogenic environment
- Prisoners and the outside world
- Work in prison
Chapter 6. Do Prisoners Have Rights?
- The slow process of developing laws
- Good and bad learners
- The ghost gulag
- The unique case of Rwanda
- Implementing gacaca
Chapter 7. Alternatives to Prison
- Prevention is better
- What should replace prison?
- Community service
- Post-sentence rehabilitation
Chapter 8. Reforming Prison
- Resistance to reform
- Outside influences
- What reforms, and for what kind of prison?
- A realistic ideal
- Winning over the doubters
Postface
Simone Othmani Lellouche
About the Author
Ahmed Othmani (1947-2004) was a great
figureof the human rights movement and one of the historical
leaders of the left in Tunisia. Tunisia's leader Bourguiba
imprisoned Othmani (1966-1980). This led him to establish Penal
Reform International (PRI) whom he served until he was killed in a
hit and run road accident in Morocco in December 2004.