The right of prisoners to health and treatment in Islamic sharia

A prisoner is recognized as an individual who is deprived of liberty, arbitrary possessions and free movement, but the prison doesn’t prevent the prisoner to reach the basic rights including the health and treatment rights. If the health and treatment rights of prisoners are not observed during their imprisonment period, it is considered as a concern while this right has been proved by testimony of verses, Hadiths and verdicts of jurists in Islamic Sharia and practical experiences of Muslims in history of prisons. The current research is to analyze and prove rights to health, preclusion and treatment of prisoners from the Islamic Sharia point of view which is done with a descriptive-analytical method by collecting library and documentary information. The obvious result of this research is getting to rights of health care, personal health, environmental health, nutritional and mental health of prisoners. Also, it includes the rights of treatment, delay in punishment and commutation of a prisoner due to illness. Proof of the rights means to ensure justice in implication of punishments on prisoners.