Reaction: A partition within the common showers had been registered as a constructional measure. There were plans for sight guards, which covered the pubic
area, but not the chest and calf area, so that the supervisory staff could still recognise and prevent attacks.
When inspecting the waiting rooms of the medical department, the Joint Commission found that these had now been re-decorated and had now also been
cleaned. However, the toilet area in the waiting area, which the Commission had
already complained about in its report of 16 June 2011, had still not been fitted
with a door or another suitable partition. The use of this toilet exposes both the
person concerned and persons waiting to an undignified situation.
Reaction: The construction of the outstanding partition of the toilets in the waiting rooms of the medical department had been commissioned. It had furthermore
been ordered to only use the two rooms that were criticised as single waiting rooms.
5.1.8 Tonna prison
The Joint Commission visited Tonna prison on 7 November 2012. Tonna prison is
responsible for the initial execution of prison sentences of more than five years
and for the standard execution of more than two years and six months to life imprisonment for adult male convicts, as well as remand detention for male persons
aged from 21. It also had an open prison department.
The Commission inspected a penal detention wing with sanitary areas, the arrivals department, the visiting area, the yard area, the clothing store, speciallysecured cells containing no dangerous objects, “settlement cells” and accommodation groups. The Joint Commission had talks with the prison governor, with
his staff from various departments, with representatives of the staff council, with
representatives of the prisoners’ co-responsibility body and with two inmates.
The prison had a capacity of 589 detention places. The facility was occupied with
522 inmates on the day of the visit. Detention places of the closed section can be
found in six detention buildings, which can be occupied with a maximum of 90
persons, broken down into accommodation groups of 17 inmates each. Each accommodation group has a large common room with a kitchen and a television.
Since the visit took place very late in the year, no statement from the Thurin gian
Ministry of Justice had yet been received by the editorial deadline of this report.
Positive findings
Unchanging officers are allocated to the accommodation groups. This promotes a
good atmosphere between inmates and officers, which was also confirmed in
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