Penitentiary establishments
In 2018 the NMPT visited 12 penitentiary establishments89: six prisons,
two pre-trial detention centres and four field units of the pre-detention centres
and a prison.
Visits to the Prison in Bydgoszcz - Fordon as well as to the Pre-trial Detention
Centre in Lublin constituted re-inspections90.
Inspection to the Bemowo Field Unit of the Pre-trial Detention Centre in
Warszawa-Białołęka was conducted in the presence of the representatives
of the mechanism for the prevention of torture from Kosovo, who were
on a study visit to Poland at that time. Due to their attendance the inspection
was announced in advance.
The visit to prison in Wronki, in turn, aimed at verifying how the authorities of
the inspected places observe the prohibition of repression, described in OPCAT.
That visit was a follow-up to the inspection held by the UN Subcommittee on
the Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment (SPT) which was visiting Polish places of detention between
9-18.07.2018.
Article 21 (1) - Prohibition of repression
No persons (e.g. inmate, establishment’s employee, family member,
another individual) or organization that provided the NMPT with information shall be subject to any sanctions or harm for that reason,
regardless of whether the information in question was true or false.
Prison no. 1 in Wrocław (BPW.571.1.2018); prison in Wronki (KMP.571.6.2018); prison
in Tarnów (KMP.571.7.2018); prison in Łupków (KMP.571.8.2018); prison in Włocławek
(KMP.571.10.2018); PTDC Warszawa-Grochów (KMP.571.5.2018); FU Rosnowo of the PTDC
in Poznań (KMP.571.1.201); FU Golesze of the PTDC in Piotrków Tryb. (KMP.571.3.2018); FU
Bemowo of the PTDC Warszawa-Białołęka (KMP.571.4.2018); FU Moszczaniec of the prison
in Łupków (KMP.571.9.2018); prison in Bydgoszcz-Fordon (KMP.571.7.2016); PTDC in Lublin
(KMP.571.6.2016).
90
Findings from that repeated control in the facility are described in the chapter entitled Re-inspections.
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