Resisting Attacks on the Rule of Law in Detention

While the criminal justice field has become a privileged terrain for challenging the role of judges, particularly the authority and legitimacy of supranational courts, ensuring prisoners’ access to justice requires a greater mobilisation for the defence of the very principle of judicial protection of fundamental rights in prison and the core principles of criminal law. EPLN addresses the rule of law implications of penal populism and advocates for an enhanced scrutiny of infringements of the rule of law in penal justice.