47 11. It is necessary for prisoners with severe mental disorders to be displaced from the ordinary prison conditions and to be sent to the Special Prison Hospital i.e. stationary health care unit within the institution where the conditions are suitable for their medical care and treatment, or other appropriate institution. 12. Ministry of Justice and Public Administration should implement measures to safeguard from ill-treatment in institutions for execution of criminal sanctions. Therefore, it is indenspensable to displace the existing internal control mechanisms (Department for Supervision) relocated from the Directorate for Execution of Sanctions so that the supervision of work of the Administration as a whole is performed by a separate organizational unit of the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration; 13. It is necessary to immediately adopt the law of protection of persons with mental disorders and change the provisions of the Law on extrajudicial proceedings related to detention of persons with mental disabilities in stationary institutions, in accordance with the rules of the International law and relevant standards, in particular according to the Strategy of mental health protection which states that the treatment and care of such persons should take place in the community, as closer as possible to the patient’s family. 14. Discontinue the practice of keeping beneficiaries in the long-term isolation residing in social welfare institutions; to intensify efforts in their relocation from such asylum institutions and their care with the support from the community. 8. NPM plan of activities for 2013 The Plan for 2013 envisages carrying out the same number of visits to institutions as in 2012, with special attention directed to the systematic tracking of the status of juveniles, women, LGBT and disabled PDLs. Some visits will be regular, i.e. visits to institutions not visited in the past period, some will only be control (follow-up) visits in order to monitor the execution of the recommendations sent, whereas some will be topic-related, and if deemed necessary, extraordinary (ad-hoc) visits will also be conducted. The unannounced visits will be intensified with some of them conducted at night. For intended performing of duties of NPM in 2013 the budget of the Protector of Citizens envisaged the same level of funds as in 2012.

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