2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE
police station informed that 5 recommendations
had been implemented: a permission-hygiene
passport was received; beds were removed from
cells to ensure that the area of the cell complied
with the requirements; cooperation with primary
health care institutions regarding the provision of
a psychologist’s services was ongoing; and drying rooms were installed for drying the laundry
of detainees. While still waiting for appropriate
funding from the Police Department, the following recommendations remained unimplemented:
regarding installation of video surveillance cameras in interrogation premises, adaptation of the
entrance to the disabled, repairs of premises of
sanitary units, and reconstruction of courtyards
used for taking a walk.
Vilnius Correction House (Rasų Street Sector and
Sniego Street Sector); Kaunas Remand Prison).
IMPRISONMENT INSTITUTIONS
3. Regarding assessment of proportionality
of the use of special measures – No assessment of proportionality of the use of special
measures was provided in the conclusions
regarding disciplinary investigations into the
use of special measures.
The following are the main problems and human
rights violations identified:
1. Regarding vacant staff positions – In some of
imprisonment institutions, there were vacant
staff positions.
2. Regarding officers’ behaviour in cases of
self-harm by inmates – In one imprisonment
institution, there were cases recorded when
persons were kept handcuffed for a particularly long period of time because they were
harming themselves due to unwilingness to
be transported with convoy.
In 2014, the Seimas Ombudsmen assessed the
human rights situation in four imprisonment
institutions (two correction facilities and two
remand prisons) (Marijampolė Correction House;
4. Regarding performance of searches – In certain imprisonment institutions, neither the
supervising inmate of the cell nor any other
person detained in the cell were present during
the performance of searches of persons and
premises; searches were filmed inappropriately
or were not filmed at all. Regarding detention
conditions – A part of premises of imprisonment institutions was inaccessible for the
disabled; the minimum living space per person
(5 m2) was often not ensured; there was a lack
of both natural and artificial lighting; there
was also a lack of furniture and hard inventory;
adequate cleanliness of sanitary units was not
ensured; in some cases smoking inmates were
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