48 towards the inhabitants of the institutions; the chances of efficiently handling the latters’ streaks of aggression towards themselves and their peers are diminished. Applying corporal and collective punishment, using cleaning and copying written texts as forms of punishment, suggested by the notices, rules of conduct, and instructions readable on the notice boards hung on the walls of certain premises of the Reformatory, in addition to being based on elements that are educationally-psychologically and legally unacceptable, result in an impropriety related to the prohibition of degrading treatment or punishment. I recommended to the Reformatory’s operator to ensure regular supervision, organize training sessions for the professional staff on prevention, attitude-shaping, and sensitization in the field of accepting vulnerable groups. I suggested to the Head of the Reformatory to remove the notice boards displaying rules and orders that are impossible to comply with and referring to degrading forms of treatment and punishment and to stop using collective, degrading punishment. I also recommended considering adding the prohibition of using work as a sanction to the rules of disciplinary procedure. 8.2. Detainees in penitentiary institutions 8.2.1. Forensic Psychiatric and Mental Institution155 The FPMI is a special healthcare institution combining, in a unique way, classical psychiatric care and law enforcement. The FPMI operates in three separate buildings on the premises of the Budapest Strict and Medium Regime Prison. The three psychiatric rehabilitation wards in Building I provide care to male and female patients sent in for compulsory treatment or temporary compulsory treatment, and to mentally incompetent detainees. In Building II, the psychiatric and neurological evaluation of persons detained in the penitentiary system, the observation of the mental condition of persons in pretrial detention, as well as the examination and treatment of detainees of diminished capacity or suffering from personality disorder are conducted. Building III of the FPMI is inhabited exclusively by patients under compulsory treatment. At the time of the visit, there were 215 patients156 in the institution with the capacity of 311 patients (utilization rate: 69.1%). The FPMI’s wards were, in general, too large and, typically, overcrowded. There were several wards larger than 60 square meters in use. There were up to 15-16 persons treated in those wards. I requested the Director General of the Hungarian Prison Service and the Chief Medical Director of the FPMI to have the large wards remodeled into smaller ones and to provide adequate living space for all detainees. The number of barrier-free showers and restrooms in the institution was insufficient. There was a “barrier-free” restroom where a wheelchair could not fit in. There were mold growths on the showers’ walls, the hot water supply did not work properly, and patients had to stand in a line in front of the restrooms in the morning hours. I requested the Director General of the Hungarian Prison Service and the Chief Medical Director of the FPMI to have the appropriate number of barrier-free restrooms created, the mold growths removed, and an adequate hot water supply system installed. Report № AJB-766/2017 Section 1 of Minister of Justice Decree 13/2014. (XII. 16.) IM on compulsory treatment, temporary compulsory treatment, and the tasks of the Forensic Psychiatric and Mental Institution (hereinafter the “FPMI Decree”) distinguishes between two types of inpatients: - patient is a person whose compulsory treatment or temporary compulsory treatment was ordered by a court, or whose designated place of imprisonment is the FPMI; - sent-in patient is a person whose mental state is observed on the order of the court; an accused who has to spend pretrial detention in the FPMI; a person who, while being subject to a sanction or a measure, is sent in by a physician to the FPMI for examination or treatment; or a convict sentenced to imprisonment whose examination is necessary for making a decision regarding his or her placement in a medical-therapeutic unit. 155 156

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