Interinstitutional
Coordination and the
Reduction of
Overcrowding
• Discharge or release to community care, wherever appropriate, residents
of social care homes (CPT, 2020).
• Refrain, to the maximum extent possible, from detaining migrants (CPT, 2020).
• Inmates that have their sentences expired during the pandemic that
display no symptoms of disease to be discharged (ICPA, 2020).
• Inmates that have their sentences expire during the pandemic who are
suffering from viral symptoms will be asked to voluntarily quarantine
themselves, and stay at the facility past their discharge date, until they are
well (ICPA, 2020).
• Temporary suspension of judicial hearings, except urgent cases (ARP, 2020).
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BR; GH; GT12; LV;
NL; PK
NL; SK; Vic, AU; WA,
AU;
• Usage of alternative strategies for indispensable or urgent judicial hearings
(e.g. videoconference) (ARP,2020).
BR; CZ13; EE; FR; LV;
NL; PK; Vic, AU; PT
(EUROPRIS, 2020).
Juvenile offenders system (ARP: Sistema Penitenciario Guatemalteco, 2020)
Courts and judges were asked to use videoconference options (possible in all 35 Czech prions) as much as possible to prevent
prisoner transfers to courts or judges coming into prisons (ICPA: The Czech Prison Service, 2020).
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• Limitation of court hearing attendances (ICPA, 2020).
• Control of probationers via phone calls (EUROPRIS,2020).
• Postpone the enforcement of the administrative penalty —administrative
arrest —irrespective of the limitation period for serving the sentence
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ES
LV