Recommendations of the National Preventive Mechanism
Recommendations for specific establishments
✓✓ Undertaking actions aimed at eliminating provocative and degrading treatment of detainees by the staff;
✓✓ Eliminating irregularities in the treatment of prisoners, in particular prisoners against
whom direct coercive measures are applied;
✓✓ Including in the internal Regulations a provision granting to the detainees the right to
call their attorney or legal representative;
✓✓ Eliminating collective responsibility of detainees;
✓✓ Assessing whether there are no abuses consisting in unfounded requests by prison officers to impose disciplinary punishment on detainees;
✓✓ Allowing persons detained on remand and those qualified as dangerous to participate
directly in a Mass;
✓✓ Providing preventive health care services to persons deprived of their liberty;
✓✓ Extending the offer of cultural and educational activities;
✓✓ Ensuring that complaints procedure exists and is observed;
✓✓ Ensuring appropriate staffing, depending on the needs of a given facility;
✓✓ Ensuring sufficient and permanent access to information about the patients’ rights, e.g.
by placing the “Charter of Patients’ Rights” (adjusted to persons placed in penitentiary
establishments) in a visible place in the rooms for patients;
✓✓ Ensuring that libraries have the latest versions of the Executive Penal Code and copies
of “Compendium for Foreigners”,
✓✓ Posting the addresses of institutions protecting the rights of prisoners in a visible place,
accessible to all;
✓✓ To stop reprimanding detainees incessantly and stop threatening them with disciplinary action;
✓✓ Limiting the time of prisoners’ stay in transition cells to the necessary period not exceeding 14 days;
✓✓ Increasing the frequency of baths;
✓✓ Providing rooms for visits without a supervising person;
✓✓ Including in the staff training programme a course on international human rights instruments and standards.
3.2. R
ooms within Police organisational units for detained persons or
persons brought to sober up
Systemic recommendations
✓✓ Subjecting all persons detained or brought to sober up to medical examination before
placing them in PDRs;
✓✓ Limiting the presence of Police officers when medical services are provided to detainees
to situations when there is a justified concern about the safety of medical personnel,
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