&37*HQHUDO5HSRUW The Georgian authorities indicate in their response that the Asatiani Psychiatric Institute would be closed down by 1 July 2011, and patients transferred to various other psychiatric institutions offering satisfactory living conditions. Report published September 2010, CPT/Inf (2010) 27; response published June 2011, CPT/Inf (2011)19 Report on the periodic visit to Ireland in January/February 2010 and response of the Irish authorities (treatment of prisoners and psychiatric patients) 33. The majority of the prisoners interviewed by the CPT’s delegation said that they were being treated correctly by prison officers, and relations between staff and inmates seemed, on the whole, to be relaxed and quite positive. However, a number of allegations of verbal abuse and physical ill-treatment of inmates by certain members of the prison staff were received. The visit report refers to several specific cases of alleged ill-treatment of inmates by prison officers, and concerns are expressed about the effectiveness of the investigations carried out into allegations of ill-treatment. The CPT notes the reduced level of inter-prisoner violence at St. Patrick’s Institution, as compared to the situation observed by the Committee in 2006. However, the situation in this regard at Mountjoy Prison was still worrying; in the view of the CPT’s delegation, the establishment remained unsafe for prisoners and prison staff alike. The report identifies the availability of drugs, lack of purposeful activities, existence of feuding gangs, continued lack of an individualised risk and needs assessment for all prisoners, and poor material conditions as contributors to this state of affairs. In their response, the Irish authorities provide details of investigations into the specific cases raised by the delegation and into all allegations of ill-treatment of prisoners at Mountjoy Prison during the period from 1 January 2008 to 25 February 2009. The authorities do not accept that Mountjoy can be described as “unsafe”; however they do accept that continuous efforts are required to address the issue of inter-prisoner violence and state that the Irish Prison Service will continue to invest in more stringent security measures to thwart incidents of violence in prison. 

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