Human Rights and Prisons: Quest for Alternative Penalties in Uganda

Human Rights and Prisons: Quest for Alternative Penalties in Uganda; examines how prison overcrowding continues to be one of the vexing concern for prison administrations in African countries. The book is premised on the study that was conducted in Uganda by the author that led to the award of a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human Rights, of Makerere University Kampala. The author examines alternatives that are increasingly becoming attractive as society continues to explore mechanisms for dealing with prison overflow and providing help to offenders who remain in the community without endangering public safety. The book concludes that those community-based corrections are considered as more efficient, economic, and a move towards the treatment of the offender in a humane way and recommends for a reduction of criminal justice processes for offenders in ways that are less costly to the state, thus lightening the load for the criminal justice system and hence reducing prison overcrowding.