NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE 48 NUMBER OF PRISONERS IN CUSTODY AT THE END OF EACH YEAR, ALL GENDERS PRISONERS, TOTAL DETAINED (AWAITING TRIAL) CONVICTED 2015 7 355 712 6 643 2016 6 815 602 6 213 2017 6 599 611 5 988 2018 6 485 606 5 879 2019 6 138 726 5 412 2020 5 320 581 4 739 2021 5 086 574 4 512 Prisoners in detention facilities53 However, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to say how many of the imprisoned persons have intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities. According to the data of the Department of Prisons of 25 May 2022, a ‘mental disability’ (Lt. ‘psichikos negalia’) had been identified for 12 persons held in prisons at the time (out of around 5300 held in prisons in total).54 THowever, the official status of disability in Lithuania is much narrower and based on the medical model, and the related system does not follow the same concept of ‘disability’ as it is defined in international human rights law, e.g., in the UN CRPD. Additionally, psychiatric diagnoses in prisons are only determined during the first medical examination when Data from the Prison Department under the Ministry of Justice, available in Lithuanian at: https://bit.ly/46oTPvl. 54 Reply from the Department of Prisons under the Ministry of Justice, Registration No: 1S-2038, 27 May 2022. 53