Cultural Rights within the Hungarian Penal Law
Cultural Rights within the Hungarian Penal Law

Summary/Abstract: The right of the convicts; especially the cultural rights of the convicts in the Hungarian Penal Law are ruled adequate to the international expectations. Of course this does not mean that we cannot make the situation of the convictsbetter. The expansion of the convicts’ rights, especially the expansion of their cultural rights is a good way to derogate the damages of the incarceration. About that there is no doubt within the professional circle.Only that convict will follow the rules who was treated legally.AlexanderLACASSAGNE - who was a classic criminal scientist - said: „the society has such criminals which the society deserves”.Maybe we should consider using clerics who are paid by the state. This will be an expense of the budget but it will also be a huge benefit in preventing crime and in resocialization. Maybe the cleric’s role should be extended also. For example: in case of the court release on parole of a person serving a life imprisonment the judge should need the opinion of the cleric.The right of election in case of convicts is solicitude in constitutional way. Maybe David VÍG suggestion is too brave nowadays (his suggestion is that the convict should also elect) but it would be useful if we have a debate on this term. To know a nation we should know the prison of the nation – said the great human rights activist Nelson MANDELA. The nature of a society can be decided by the way the society treats the low status people and not by the way the society treats the highest status people.

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