NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED
OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE
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a person informs about a mental health condition
diagnosed before their detention or later comes to a
family doctor or a psychiatrist with health complaints.
Therefore, the statistics do not include persons who
have never reported their mental health difficulties
and/or have not applied to the hospital unit due to any
health conditions, difficulties, intellectual or psychosocial
disabilities.
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
1624 1571
1514
1423
1201
993
814
798
715
673
554
400
200
0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
General number of registered mental health conditions in prisons
in Lithuania (31 December of each year)55
It is important to note that within the national system
and especially in the context of cross-border procedures,
general statistics is monitored, but disaggregated
data on persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial
disabilities is not collected at all.
Reply from the Department of Prisons under the Ministry of Justice,
Registration No: 1S-2038, 27 May 2022.
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