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4.
Register of domestic places of detention
and the NPM’s annual schedule of visits
Pursuant to Article 20(a) of the OPCAT, the States Parties, in order to enable
the National Preventive Mechanisms to fulfil their mandate, grant them “access
to all information concerning the number of persons deprived of their liberty in places
of detention as defined in article 4, as well as the number of places and their location”.
Type
Social care institutions
Child protection services
Juvenile correctional institutions
Penitentiary system
Two healthcare institutions
of the penitentiary system (separately)
Police
Airport Police Directorate (separately)
Healthcare5
Guarded refugee reception centres
Administration of justice (number
of persons in detention rooms on the last
business day of December 2017)
Total
Number
of places
Capacity
1,436
88,761
83,658
614
2
29,215
20,9673
5
564
413
36
13,923
17,081
2
608
374
1,354
2,598
3124
1
Number
of detainees
4
50
0
154
9,510
4,783
3
790
56
159
320
357
3,767
146,339
127,628
The aggregate list of places of detention under Hungarian jurisdiction as of 31 December 2017 (unless indicated
otherwise in the table).
[1] Exclusive of the own homes of foster parents.
[2] Exclusive of the external venues reserved for persons in post-care.
[3] Number of minors receiving child protection services (exclusive of the number of persons in post-care).
[4] In 2017 there were altogether 99,573 persons detained for 7.08 hours on average in police places of detention, exclusive of persons detained at guarded lodgings where 520 persons were restricted in their freedom
for 55.43 days on average.
[5] Data for the following wards of hospitals: psychiatry; addictology; psychiatric rehabilitation; addictological rehabilitation; child and youth psychiatry; child and youth psychiatric rehabilitation; child and youth
addictology; child and youth addictological rehabilitation; gerontology; infectology; AIDS care; tropical
diseases care.
[6] In 2017 there were altogether 378 persons detained for 46.12 days on average at the premises of the Guarded
Refugee Reception Centre.
[7] In 2017 there were altogether 6,845 detainees detained for 2 hours on average on the premises of courts
suitable for apprehension.
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