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Scottish Court Holds Prison Phone Call Imprinting Violates European Convention On Human Rights
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2007, page 33
Filed under:
International,
International Law,
Telephone Access,
Telephone Monitoring.
Location:
United Kingdom.
Lord Glennie of the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Scotland ruled that the blanket policy of imprinting all prisoner originated phone calls with the warning, "This call originates from a Scottish prison" violated the European Convention on Human Rights because it "inhibited (the prisoner's) social rehabilitation" and was "embarrassing." But ...
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