3. Youth care centres
3.1. Introduction
In 2016, the representatives of the NMPT visited 11 youth care centres60. Four of the visits were ad hoc visits61, and one establishment was
reinspected62.
The NMPT also started a series of thematic visits to youth care centres to
analyse the issue of access of their juvenile residents to health care services
in the areas of psychiatric care and addiction treatment. In 2016, 6 thematic
visits were conducted63. The materials collected during the visits will be used
to draw up a thematic report analysing the health care system used for juvenile residents in those areas as well as possible recommendations for the
competent authorities.
In addition to conducting the above mentioned visits, the NMPT also
monitors preparatory proceedings concerning physical and mental abuse of
two juvenile residents by youth care centre staff members64. When the proceedings are closed and judgments are issued, an analysis will be carried out
of actions taken in those cases by relevant institutions and of the systemic
solutions aimed to eliminate the risk of inhuman treatment in the future.
60
YCCs in: Marszew, Rejowiec (two visits), Augustów, Różanystok, Kolonia Szczerbacka, Mszana Dolna, Kolonia Ossa, Leśnica, Wałbrzych and Gostchorz.
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YCCs in: Rejowiec (two visits), Różanystok and Kolonia Szczerbacka.
62
YCC in Różanystok.
63
YCCs in: Pogroszyn, Warsaw (ul. Barska 4, and ul. Strażacka 57), Łódź, Kolonia Szczerbacka and
Wrocław.
64
Proceeding conducted by District Prosecutor’s Office in Myślibórz, file no. Ds. 887/15, concerning
abuse of juveniles from the youth care centre in Renice; Proceeding conducted by District Prosecutor’s
Office in Radomsko, file no. Ds. 1240/2016 concerning ill-treatment of juveniles from the youth care
centre no. 1 in Łódź (KMP.573.15.2015). According to the reply of the District Prosecutor’s Office in
Myślibórz, dated 13.07.2017, the case concerning abuse of juveniles from the youth care centre in Renice,
after its discontinuance by a court and subsequent reinstatement following an appeal procedure, is currently reexamined under the new file no. PR Ds 413.2017. As regards the case concerning ill-treatment
of juveniles from the youth care centre no. 1 in Łódź, in his letter of 27.06.201 the District Prosecutor’s
Office in Piotrków Trybunalski informed that the proceeding was discontinued. Deputy CHR requested
the Office to forward the files to the CHR Office. After examining the files, the CHR, on 13.07.2017,
requested the District Prosecutor’s Office in Łódź to verify the correctness of the decision of the District
Prosecutor’s Office in Piotrków Trybunalski. The NMPT is awaiting a reply.
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