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Constitutional Court rules that prisoners must be provided mattresses and blankets

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La Reforma is one of the prisons suffering from severe overcrowding. (archive image)

 

September 9th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Costa Rica’s Constitutional Court (Sala IV) has ruled that prisoners must be provided mattresses and blankets after an appeal filed by a former prisoner.

 

The court also ruled that the State must pay damages to the former prisoner, who was jailed in Upala for three days without being provided a mattress or blanket.

 

In its ruling, the Court said that prisoners retain all of their fundamental human rights except for their freedom of movement, and that prison conditions must not violate human dignity.

 

Overcrowding in Costa Rica’s prison system has been an ongoing problem, which the United States State Department criticized in a human rights report last year.

 

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  • mhogan

    Let’s give them pink coveralls and keep them somewhere where they won’t need blankets. Page from Sheriff Arpaio, works for me.

  • lazymainer

    What would one expect…

  • Ken Morris

    Don’t you love the Sala IV? I mean, this is the same outfit that ruled prison overcrowding to be unconstitutional too. The overcrowding continues, as I bet the mattresses and blankets won’t.

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