Recommendations of the National Preventive Mechanism ✓✓ Abandoning the practice of conditioning the length of telephone conversations of juveniles with their families upon the degree of their resocialization; ✓✓ Adding to the Regulations the rules for visiting juvenile residents; ✓✓ Organising regular meetings to inform juveniles about their rights and about the ways of executing these rights; ✓✓ Organising workshops dedicated to the activity of institutions protecting human rights; ✓✓ Placing Regulations/ Statute of the establishment on boards in entertainment rooms; ✓✓ Displaying in a visible place contact details to institutions where the juveniles can turn for help when their rights are being infringed upon, namely the Human Rights Defender, the Ombudsman for Children, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, and family court judges; ✓✓ Taking actions intended to prevent the influence of any subculture groups; ✓✓ Renovating and refurbishing buildings, especially the living premises and the bathrooms for juveniles; ✓✓ Organising trainings for the staff on the protection of the rights of children in international and national law. 3.5. Juvenile detention centres and juvenile shelters Systemic recommendations ✓✓ Eliminating form the catalogue of sanctions the one which consists in transferring a juvenile to another establishment; ✓✓ Providing health care services to juveniles out of sight and hearing range of non-medical staff; ✓✓ Ensuring that every juvenile may participate in outdoor activities for at least one hour a day; ✓✓ Adjusting establishments to the needs of disabled persons. Recommendations for specific establishments ✓✓ Applying direct coercive measures pursuant to the provisions of the Act on j.d.p.; ✓✓ Eliminating collective responsibility; ✓✓ Eliminating the instances of stay in transition rooms as a sanction; ✓✓ Eliminating disciplinary measures not justified by safety reasons which limit a juvenile’s contact with his/hre family and restrict his/her participation in school activities; ✓✓ Staff of a facility should always react when safety of the juveniles detained therein might be in danger; ✓✓ Accounting for a possibility for juveniles to have direct contact with persons other than their parents and legal guardians; 137

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