Mechanism of prisons oversight in the light of international documents and comparative criminal law

The typically covered prison’s nature in the one side,and in the perspective of authorities of these settings,insignificance or at least being low importance of people held within there in other side,creates some type of sense of immunity that sometimes expose the basic rights of detainees in an irrecoverable risk.Lack of an independent mechanism of oversight of prison/custody as well as inmates’ complaints,led to expansion of natural tendency of these settings to remain at anonymity and non-transparency.On the contrary,trying for transparency and accountability of prisons’ authorities through regular & independent oversight of their treatment with detainees, decrease the risk of power misuse in this settings,use of force within them (sometimes in serious and even fatal degree),Sense of immunity and being immune of punishment and guarantee the basic rights of who deprive of their liberty.In prison system of Iran,despite of some efforts for oversight of detention settings,most acts stayed at a level of within-system oversight and in fact had also been done in a reactive not active or regular manner,generally after media disclosing of some event within them,in response to public opinion and after numerous formality and most degree of restrictions.Using the related sources about oversight of prison/custody and inspection of them,this paper meanwhile examining the international standards in these issues,studies the challenges and solutions of US and UK tries to along with examining the accepted mechanism in Iranian prison system tries to analyse the content of documents and formal discourse in these issues,examine the applying of these mechanism in fact.