Current issues and good practices in prison management – Thematic report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture

Date: November 2023

This report aims to shed light on the significant problems currently prevalent within the Turkish prison system. Turkey has been facing numerous challenges and criticisms regarding the conditions and treatment of inmates in its correctional facilities. These concerns have raised important questions about the effectiveness of rehabilitation, human rights violations, and overcrowding issues, among others. Understanding the complexities and intricacies of these problems is essential to initiating positive reforms and ensuring a more just and humane prison system. This report delves into the key issues faced by Turkish prisons and proposes potential solutions to address these pressing concerns. By examining the current state of affairs, we can identify areas of improvement and work towards creating meaningful change within the Turkish prison system. With this writing, our aim in general is to provide you with a broad view concerning prisons in Turkey the deteriorating conditions that inmates and detainees have been facing, and the unfair implementations which have been systemically carried out by the officials.

At this very point, we as De Facto Justice, an Amsterdam-based human rights advocacy association and whose board of directors and volunteers consist of lawyers, academics, and human rights activists, are in search of a better world in which people live in a harmony in a non-discriminative, peaceful and non-brutal environment regardless of inmates’ actions and crimes they committed.