NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE 90 institution carrying out the sentence of public service or restriction of liberty and the head of the Central Prison Hospital shall, within 3 working days, submit the legal documents to the court regarding the initiation of the process of applying compulsory medical measures to the convict. However, interviews with professionals have revealed that compulsory medical measures are used extremely rarely in such cases: „I do not know what they should do to themselves in order to actually be exempt from their penalty.“112 Persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities who are not recognised as not criminally responsible and who are sentenced to imprisonment face difficulties in serving their sentence due to inadequate training on the part of the officials and inadequate detention conditions: „One was a child, but with mild ‘mental retardation’, and they didn't declare him not criminally responsible, they left him to serve his sentence, but, well, his behaviour still stands out, and he needs to be supervised, and that's the training of the officers, and, well, no, the officers 112 Quote from one of the semi-structured interviews.

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