Report of the HRD on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2011 ✓✓ Eliminating excessive control of correspondence of juveniles and adjusting relevant provisions of the Regulations so that they comply with the Act on juvenile delinquency proceedings; ✓✓ Enabling juveniles accommodated in the transition room and in a group of intervention shelter to attend religious services held in the shelter; ✓✓ Determining precisely the purpose of patient, transition and isolation rooms, and furnishing them in a way compliant with its purpose; ✓✓ Adjusting the isolation room to the requirements laid down in the Ordinance of 22 February 2011 on detailed conditions and method of using coercive measures with respect to juveniles in juvenile detention centres, juvenile shelters, youth care centres, and youth sociotherapy centres; ✓✓ Adjusting the transition rooms to the requirements laid down in the Ordinance of 17 October 2001 on juvenile detention centres and juvenile shelters; ✓✓ Placing in a visible area the addresses of institutions protecting the rights of juveniles, including the Human Rights Defender, the Ombudsman for Children, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, and a family court judge ✓✓ Furnishing showers and toilets with curtains or doors to ensure a proper level of intimacy to the users; ✓✓ Organising training of the staff on the protection of the rights of the child in international and national law. 3.6. Sobering-up stations Systemic recommendations ✓✓ Conducting additional trainings on the use of direct coercion; ✓✓ Adapting rooms and equipment at the stations to the needs of disabled persons. Recommendations for specific centres ✓✓ Treating patients in sobering-up stations respecting their dignity; ✓✓ Applying coercive measures as provided for in the law and in a manner which is not degrading for intoxicated persons; thoroughly documenting all instances of applying such measure; ✓✓ Abandoning the practice of forceful stripping patients of their clothes; ✓✓ Introducing a procedure for orally informing admitted persons, capable of comprehending the information communicated to them, as well as persons who were admitted to the station but the contact with whom had been previously impossible due to their intoxication, about the rules applicable at the station; ✓✓ Ensuring that the rights of patients to intimacy and personal dignity is respected when they change their clothes, take a bath or receive medical treatment. This shall be 138