Members of the Team who in 2011 visited the establishmentsin the capacity of ...
Preventive Mechanism within jurisdiction of the Regional Agent of the Human Rights
Defender in Wrocław.
Dorota Krzysztoń – a criminologist, graduate of the University of Warsaw. A longtime
civil servant, involved in the protection of the civil rights and a mediator in criminal cases.
Currently employed by the National Preventive Mechanism.
Marcin Kusy – a lawyer, graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin and of the School
of Human Rights and Freedoms at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of
Sciences. He has extensive knowledge of American law, holder of a certificate of Chicago
Kent College of Law. Since 2008, employee of the National Preventive Mechanism, he acts
as a contact person between the Mechanism and the Council of Europe.
Zbigniew Kuźma – a lawyer, long-time employee of the Prison Service. While working in the penitentiary system, he implemented innovations in fighting addictions (the
Atlantis Programme), focusing on “dangerous” prisoners and social rehabilitation work.
He participated in committees creating a new model of penitentiary system, drafting legal
acts and implementing legislation related to the functioning of penitentiary system and to
executing penalty of imprisonment. Since 1998, he has been an employee of the Human
Rights Defender’s Office.
Justyna Lewandowska – Director of the “National Preventive Mechanism” in the Human Rights Defender’s Office. A lawyer, graduate of the University of Warsaw. In 2007, she
completed the prosecutor’s apprenticeship in Warsaw, and since 2010 is a member of the
Warsaw Bar Association. A long-time employee of the Helsinki Foundation for Human
Rights. When at the Foundation, she focused on the rights of persons deprived of their
liberty, of persons using psychoactive drugs, and of those living with HIV virus / suffering
from AIDS. In 2007 and 2008, she was a member of the team working to amend the Act on
prevention of drug abuse and certain other acts. The team was designated by the Minister
of Justice.
Przemysław Możejko – a graduate of politics and law faculty at the University of
Gdańsk. In the years 1992-1994, he worked directly with persons deprived of their liberty,
then as an inspector of penitentiary establishments. Since 2009, employed by the Human
Rights Defender’s Office, dealing with the issues of criminal executive law.
Jolanta Nowakowska – a political scientist, graduate of the University of Warsaw. A
long-time employee of a pre-trial detention centre. Participated in the “Atlantis” project
to open therapeutic units for convicted persons addicted to alcohol. While employed in
Polish consulates in Germany, she helped Polish citizens temporarily deprived of freedom.
Since 2009, she has been dealing with the issues of executive criminal law in the Human
Rights Defender’s Office.
Wojciech Sadownik – a lawyer, graduate of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in
Lublin. He worked, inter alia, at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Employed
in the Human Rights Defender’s Office since 2010. Employee of the National Preventive
Mechanism.
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