{"id":252170,"date":"2021-07-26T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/jul\/26\/52-held-close-supervision-prison-units-may-amount-torture"},"modified":"2021-07-26T14:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:03:52","slug":"fifty-two-prisoners-in-close-supervision-units-that-may-amount-to-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/26\/fifty-two-prisoners-in-close-supervision-units-that-may-amount-to-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty-two prisoners in close supervision units \u2018that may amount to torture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FoI request reveals number of inmates in England and Wales kept in conditions criticised by UN expert <\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/jul\/26\/complete-removal-of-hope-an-inmate-on-life-in-a-close-supervision-centre\">Complete removal of hope\u2019: an inmate on life in a close supervision centre<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Fifty-two people are being held in prison units in England and Wales in conditions that a UN human rights expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27076&amp;LangID=E\">has said<\/a> may amount to torture, the Guardian has learned.<\/p><p>Close supervision centres (CSC) hold some of the most dangerous men in the prison system in small, highly supervised units within high-security jails in conditions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk\/hmiprisons\/media\/press-releases\/2015\/08\/close-supervision-centres-a-well-run-system-which-contains-dangerous-men-safely-and-decently\/\">previously described by the prisons inspector<\/a> as \u201cthe most restrictive \u2026 with limited stimuli and human contact\u201d.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/jul\/26\/52-held-close-supervision-prison-units-may-amount-torture\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/jul\/26\/52-held-close-supervision-prison-units-may-amount-torture\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FoI request reveals number of inmates in England and Wales kept in conditions criticised by UN expert Complete removal of hope\u2019: an inmate on life in a close supervision centreFifty-two people are being held in prison units in England and Wales in cond&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4397,6,29495,520,1313,1314,111,5623],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252384,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252170\/revisions\/252384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}