Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2013 disabled persons intellectually and lengthily mentally ill centres can be linked under the condition of situating each of them in the separate building, what in this case wasn’t carried out. Administration of the centre only towards one of residents filed a motion to move to institution intended for persons lengthily mentally ill, according to information provided by management of the centre. Remaining residents due to the long stay in the centre adapted themselves to his specificity and they are functional well, in the evaluation of the management. 6.3.2. Treatment The prevailing atmosphere in visited centres was very good, in the evaluation of the representatives of the NPM. Interviewed persons in the predominating number of cases emphasized that they were feeling all right in the centre, they assessed the staff as involved in the care, the help and organising the free time for them. But the representatives of the Mechanism received some signals indicating the improper treatment of residents by persons employed in the centres. Interviewed persons handed over that the staff is turning to them on you, without keeping the reciprocity principle in this respect216, the staff is involving residents for the help with working for the centre or other residents217, or the staff is encouraging them for the help in taking care of other residents into the too persistent way218. 6.3.3. Disciplining During the visits, the representatives of the NPM revealed, that towards residents of some centres disciplinary methods are applied. In one centre219 there was inserted a  catalogue of penalties including the warning, a  reprimand, a  written reprimand, a reprimand entered into presences of inmates, moving to other residential room, moving to other centre. The analysis of the notebook of reports in the other centre220 revealed applying a physical effort as penalties, residents and workers pointed moreover for applying the ban on departures home, of the watching television and using the computer. Also at other centres visiting received signals concerning administering penalties in the form of: the ban on the departure from the room221, of the ban on vacating the centre222, several days’ wearing py Social Care Centre in Przasnysz. Social Care Centre in Susz, Social Care Centre in Węgorzewo. 218 Social Care Centre in Legnickie Pole. 219 Social Care Centre in Biłgoraj. 220 Social Care Centre in Poznań. 221 Social Care Centre in w Kraków. 222 Social Care Centre in Mysłowice, Social Care Centre in Susz. 216 217 68