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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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
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Quote from one of the semi-structured interviews.
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