Proliferation and Implementation of Prison Ombudsmen: Comparative Analysis of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales and the Justizvollzugsbeauftragter des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen in Bloomington, MN

Prison ombudsmen are charged with investigating claims of injustice and breaches of human rights within the total institutions of the penal system. This book comprehensively examines which needs these institutions were intended to meet, why they spread around the globe and how their proliferation determined their implementation.