GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION: Medical Standards in Prisons [Complete] [Complete]

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Medical Standards in Prisons
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights | Strength: Significant | Proposed by: Connopolis​

Description: The General Assembly,

ACKNOWLEDGING that adequate healthcare in prison medical wards is a vital aspect of the facility,

DEFINES, for the purpose of this resolution, Prison as a facility used to confine accused and/or convicted criminals in accordance with local, regional, and/or international law,

HEREBY MANDATES that all Prisons in all member states have, at minimum, one functioning medical ward that:

1. Employs an adequate number of appropriate medical professionals, relative to the prison's occupancy, with at least one qualified physician present in the medical ward at all times;
2. Allows all prisoners immediate access to anesthetics, analgesics, and other such drugs when determined to be medically necessary by staff health care professionals;
3. Contains an appropriate number of beds, which will be made available to all inmates who suffer from a medical emergency that requires observation in the medical ward;
4. Utilizes up-to-date, effective medical equipment for the treatment of prisoners;
5. Provides gender-appropriate services as dictated by the inmate population of the prison in question, including appropriate care and treatment for pregnant individuals and their offspring;
6. Arranges for the safe transfer of prisoners to outside facilities for those who require specialized medical care beyond that offered by the Prison medical ward.

REQUIRES the use of appropriate sterilization techniques throughout the prison and medical ward to minimize the spread of infectious disease.

PROHIBITS the following inhumane actions from being performed on prisoners:

1. The administration of medical drugs for the purpose of causing anguish;
2. The administration of medical drugs for the purposes of causing death, with exceptions granted for euthanasia at the inmate's request and for capital punishment;
3. The use of prisoners as test subjects without their informed, written consent.

ALLOWS individual member states to impose additional protocol or standards that do not conflict with this resolution to their current correctional facility medical system.

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