Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2012 Justyna Lewandowska – Director of the Team of the National Preventive Mechanism in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. A  lawyer, graduate of the University of Warsaw. In 2007, she completed the prosecutor’s apprenticeship in Warsaw, and since 2010 has been a  member of the Warsaw Bar Association. A long-time employee of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. When at the Foundation, she focused on the rights of persons deprived of their liberty, of persons using psychoactive drugs, and of those living with HIV virus / suffering from AIDS. In 2007 and 2008, she was a member of the team working to amend the Act on prevention of drug abuse and certain other acts. The team was designated by the Minister of Justice. Małgorzata Molak – a graduate of social rehabilitation, with a major in rehabilitation and family support, at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. In 2011 she completed postgraduate studies in the field of psychological, pedagogical and legal preparation for work with difficult young people at the Alcide De Gasperi University of Euroregional Economy in Józefów. Volunteer consultant at the Hotline for People in Emotional Crisis at the Institute of the Psychology of Health. Since 2011, she has been an employee of the National Preventive Mechanism in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. Marcin Mazur – deputy Director of the National Preventive Mechanism Team in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. A lawyer, graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin. In 2011 he passed his solicitor’s exam and was accepted as a  member of the Circuit Chamber of Legal Counsel in Warsaw. From 2003 to 2008, he pursued doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration in the area of legal science – penal law at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Currently, he is working on his doctoral thesis. In 2005 and 2006 he completed his postgraduate studies in the area of pedagogical preparation. Since 2004, he has been working in the Office of the Human Rights Defender – initially at the Executive Criminal Law Department, later, in the National Preventive Mechanism Team. Author of several articles on penal law. Wojciech Sadownik – a  lawyer, graduate of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. He worked, inter alia, at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Since 2010, he has been an employee of the National Preventive Mechanism in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. 110