Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2013 sion of medical services to juveniles. In one of the establishments147 the presence of a guard was treated as a rule and only the doctor could decide otherwise,148 while in another establishment while one of the charges said that he was accompanied by an establishment employee during a visit to the doctor’s office. The National Preventive Mechanism is of the opinion that the presence of non-medical staff during the provision of health care services should take place only when the doctor requires it. 3B.3.8. Right to religious practices The right to religious practices is respected in the establishments. It is possible for the juveniles staying in juvenile detention centres and juvenile shelters to attending church services and meetings with a Roman catholic priest. In addition, one establishment149 started cooperation with Jehovah’s Witnesses and a pastor of the Free Christians Church In other establishment no charges had the need to contact representatives of other denominations. 3B.3.9. Right of access to information In most visited establishments juveniles were presented the rules of stay in a juvenile detention centre or juvenile shelter and had the opportunity to read the rules in hurry-free conditions. NPM representatives had the most serious reservations about the way charges are informed about personal matters, which infringes the right to privacy. Juveniles were informed on the dates of cases involving them in public,150 responses to charges’ requests were read out during an assembly151 or displayed on public notice boards.152 3B.3.10. Living conditions NPM representatives were concerned with the fact § 1055 of the Ordinance on juvenile detention centres and juvenile shelters was not observed. It stipulates that digital records from the monitoring of residential rooms, transition rooms, isolation rooms and patient rooms shall be archived until the juveniles who live there leave the centre or shelter. Juvenile Detention Centre in Trzemeszno. Juvenile Detention Centre in Kcynia. 149 Juvenile Centre for Social Adaptation in Koszalin. 150 Juvenile Detention Centre in Gdańsk. 151 Juvenile Detention Centre and Juvenile Shelter in Koronowo. 152 Juvenile Detention Centre in Kcynia, Juvenile Detention Centre in Trzemeszno. 147 148 51