NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE 91 aren't fully trained to understand what a ‘mental disorder’ is.“113 „Even while he is waiting for the trial and for the verdict, it is clear that the prison is a cell type, so there was still some negotiation, so that he cannot be with others, for example. Well, it is dangerous to keep him even with others, it is dangerous either for the others or for him. So, with a cell type prison, you can still have some sort of arrangement, but if they go out, and they go mostly to a shared correctional facilities somewhere, it's all sorts of things there.“114 As a result of the inadequate conditions of detention, persons suffer both physically and psychologically, and are also subjected to bullying by other inmates. Lack of specialised knowledge on the part of officers means that those prone to aggression are subdued by special measures such as isolation. The inability of inmates with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities to understand the prevailing order provokes the anger of the officers and their desire to desperately tame and enforce the prescribed behaviour (Interview No. 3).115 113   Quote from one of the semi-structured interviews. 114   Quote from one of the semi-structured interviews. 115   Quote from one of the semi-structured interviews.

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