2025
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The law relating to prisoners is highly complex.
Their legal rights depend to a large part on their status as remand or convicted prisoners, whether they are adults or young offenders, their gender as male or female or transgendered – and that is without considering their sentence length or their security categorisation.
This section examines prisoners and the law and up-to-date legislation that applies to them.
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