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4. Needs, Rights, responsibilities and privileges of prisoners
 
  Article 20-Rights of prisoners  
20.1 Rights of prisoners  
  The following are considered the fundamental rights of all prisoners:
 
 
  Life
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 It is an absolute right of all living humans beings in legal custody to be alive. The question of a capital sentence as handed down by the courts and documented is considered separate to this right to life.
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 No human should be allowed to take the life of another human, without their free-will permission, no matter what the cause, no matter what the cost.
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 The right to die must rest wholly on the desire of the individual and the will of the individual.
 
 
  Adequate food, water and clothing
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 Every prisoner has the right to adequate shelter free from exposure to extremes of external elements including sun, rain, extreme heat, extreme cold, damp and flood.
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 Every prisoner has the right to adequate food and clean drinking water, free of any contaminants and/or infection.
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 All prisoners have the right to basic sanitary and hygene facilities so that they can maintain a minimum level of personal hygene and health.
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 All prisoners have the right to adequate and clean clothing such that they are protected from the elements and are are to maintain a minimum level of acceptable hygene.
 
 
  Personal safety
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 No prisoner should ever be subjected to torture, or to cruel inhuman physical or extreme mental degrading treatment or punishment.
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 No prisoner shall ever be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade are rejected as barbaric in all its forms.
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 No prisoner should be subject to threat, intimidation or physical violence on behalf of another inmate, subject to authorities being properly notified of such a threat.
 
 
  Health and medical services
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 A prisoner should have the right to adequate health and medical services in the event of a medical emergency or subject to the prisoner having a precondition requiring ongoing medical treatment.
 
20.2 Normal rights of a free person suspended as privileges  
  Subject to a person being held in lawful custody, those rights normally assigned to a free person but not listed above may be made available to a prisoner as privileges, subject to the good conduct and responsible behaviour of the prisoner.  
     
 
 

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