Therefore, the postulates raised by the Mechanism in the 2017 annual report
remain valid.
☞The ordinance of the Director General of the Prison Service needs to
be updated to indicate facilities adjusted to the needs of prisoners
with physical disabilities108.
Limited range of cultural and educational activities for remand prisoners and
convicts
CPT
The CPT calls on Polish authorities to undertake measures necessary
for the development of programmes of activities for remand prisoners as well as convicts. The goal should be to ensure that each detainee can spend a reasonable part of the day (eight hours or more)
outside the cell while participating in purposeful and diversified activities (work, education, vocational training, sport, etc.)109.
The range of activities offered to prisoners is very limited. Apart from an
hour-long walk and activities organized in the common room they did not
have a chance to be involved in other pursuits. In practice, as could be concluded from conducted interviews, they spent most of the time in the residential cell. They only left it to go for a walk.
The problem pertained also to juvenile prisoners who indicated that
recreation and rehabilitation programmes were not very attractive to them.
Therefore, they were unwilling to benefit from those forms of activity.
In the opinion of the Minister of Justice, the postulated further efforts in the
field of activities for remand prisoners, to enable their longer stay outside the
Decree No. 15/18 of the Director General of the Prison Service of April 10, 2015 regarding
the determination of the purpose of prisons and detention centres.
109
CPT report on the visit to Poland in 2103, CPT / Inf (2014) 21, parish 43.
108
Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities
of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2018
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