Correlates of violence in Guinea's Maison Centrale Prison: A statistical approach in documenting human rights abuses

Les Mêmes Droits Pour Tous (MDT) is a human rights NGO in Guinea, West Africa that focuses on the rights of prisoners in Maison Centrale, the country's largest prison located in the capital city of Conakry. In 2007, MDT completed a survey of the prison population to assess basic legal and human...

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Published in:Health and human rights 2010-01, Vol.12 (2), p.73-87
Main Author: Osborn, Ronald E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to health care
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Bioethics
Capital cities
Cities
Crime reporting
Criminal arrests
Criminal charges
Econometrics
Etiology
Female
Guinea
Health and Human Rights in Practice
Human Rights
Human Rights - legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Nongovernmental Organizations
Police
Prisoners
Prisons
Rights
Scars
Statistical analysis
Statistics
Torture
Trials
Violations
Violence
Violence - statistics & numerical data
Violent crimes
West Africa
Young Adult
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Summary:Les Mêmes Droits Pour Tous (MDT) is a human rights NGO in Guinea, West Africa that focuses on the rights of prisoners in Maison Centrale, the country's largest prison located in the capital city of Conakry. In 2007, MDT completed a survey of the prison population to assess basic legal and human rights conditions. This article uses statistical tools to explore MDT's survey results in greater depth, shedding light on human rights violations in Guinea. It contributes to human rights literature that argues for greater use of econometric tools in rights reporting, and demonstrates how human rights practitioners and academics can work together to construct an etiology of violence and torture by state actors, as physical violence is perhaps the most extreme violation of the individual's right to health.
ISSN:1079-0969
2150-4113