NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE 49 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. 55

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