exemplary because of its age-friendly design, as well as of its friendly, respectful wording. Würzburg Clearing Agency has an internal complaints system, but there is no external complaint body such as an ombudsman. The Joint Commission recommends setting up such a body to which the accommodated children and juveniles can turn at any time. 5.5 Court holding cells The Joint Commission visited the holding cells of Berlin-Tiergarten Local Court (Moabit Criminal Court) on 14 December 2012. It will be reporting on the outcome of this visit in the Annual Report 2013. 5.6 Subsequent information regarding visits carried out in 2011 The Joint Commission already carried out the inspection visits noted below in 2011. For various reasons, the correspondence between the Joint Commission and the supervisory authorities continued into 2012, so that it is recounted below. The original Report of the Joint Commission on the visits is contained in the Annual Report 2010/2011. 5.6.1 LWL Lippstadt Centre for Forensic Psychiatry The Joint Commission visited LWL Lippstadt Centre for Forensic Psychiatry on 18 August 2011, accompanied by a psychiatric expert.27 The Commission received further information from patients immediately after the visit. It therefore added to its visit report a request to pass on information on suicides and self-injuries since 2005 and on the patients who had been placed in an “intensive care room” since 2005, as well as on the design of the accommodation. The recommendations of the Joint Commission and the renewed reaction of the Ministry of Health, Equalities, Care and Ageing of the Land North Rhine-Westphalia are recounted below: The statement did not make it clear whether there had been a reaction to the information provided by the Joint Commission regarding fire protection regulations. It was only reported that the wardrobes had been removed from the corridors. The Commission asked to be informed as to what had happened with the other items located in the corridors (clothes horses, boxes, etc.). Reaction: The clothes horses and boxes had been removed from the corridors. 27 Cf. Annual Report 2010/2011, loc. cit., pp. 55 et. seqq. 79

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