Workshop Report: Human Rights in Prison

Abstract

Omar Nashabe, an instructor of human rights at the Lebanese American University (LAU) and an instructor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and Haigazian University, is currently working on a voluntary basis, to improve the situation of human rights in Lebanese prisons. Nashabe earned his BA at the American University of Beirut and MA in Social Policy at the State University of New York (SUNY), and it is in those university years that he got interested in crime, deviance and rehabilitation.