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.
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