Sentence examples for right of prisoners from inspiring English sources

This month, the European Court in effect accepted the right of the House of Commons to decide on the right of prisoners to vote.

The justices need to reaffirm the right of prisoners in Guantánamo to seek justice in federal court and to explain firmly and clearly what that entails.

Ginsburg noted that a seventy-year-old couple could marry, and the court has held up the right of prisoners to do so.

In a lamentable 5-to-4 ruling in 2009, the court denied a free-standing right of prisoners to obtain postconviction DNA testing that might prove their innocence.

Instead, MPs were enraged by the European court's insistence that we end the blanket ban on the right of prisoners to vote.

For decades, the international community, including the International Red Cross, the World Medical Association and the United Nations, have recognized the right of prisoners of sound mind to go on a hunger strike.

In the history of American jurisprudence with the continued building of industrialized prisons, the rights of prisoners have become more humane in regards to the contact with the outside world.

"Unfortunately, the courts have not been friendly to us and support the rights of prison officials instead of the rights of prisoners to educate and rehabilitate themselves".

I have also worked with prison officials in Burundi, in terms of capacity training on handling prisoners because Burundi is one country in which the prison conditions are very dire and the rights of prisoners are not recognized.

Critics say the prisoners should be accorded the rights of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

"I used to stand up for the rights of prisoners which made the situation worse.