Principle 26.1 The objective of training and treatment of juveniles placed in institutions is
to provide care, protection, education and vocational skills, with a view to assisting them to
assume socially constructive and productive roles in society.
9th General Report on the CPT's activities [CPT/Inf (99) 12]
§ 28 In the view of the CPT, all juveniles deprived of their liberty because they are accused
or convicted of criminal offences ought to be held in detention centres specifically designed
for persons of this age, offering regimes tailored to their needs and staffed by persons
trained in dealing with the young.
Moreover, the care of juveniles in custody requires special efforts to reduce the risks of
long-term social maladjustment. This calls for a multidisciplinary approach, drawing upon
the skills of a range of professionals (including teachers, trainers and psychologists), in
order to respond to the individual needs of juveniles within a secure educative and sociotherapeutic environment.
Ordinance of the Minister of National Education and Sport on types and detailed rules
of operation of public establishments, children and juvenile living conditions in these
establishments and the amount and rules of payment made by parents (Dz.U. of 2005,
No 52, item 467)
§ 13 The responsibilities of youth care centre include elimination of reasons and symptoms
of soacial maladjustments and preparation of inmates to life in compliance with social and
legal norms.
§ 15 The responsibilities of youth sociotherapy centre include elimination of reasons and
symptoms of soacial maladjustments and preparation of inmates to life in compliance with
social and legal norms.
§ 16 The responsibilities stipulated in § 13 and 15are realised through:
1) Organisation on educational, preventive, therapeutic and resocializing activities
allowing acquisition of life skills facilitating proper functioning in family and social
environment;
2) Help in educational and professional career planning, with regard to the possibilities
and interests of inmates;
3) Support for parents (legal guardians) within acquisition of skills which are
indispensable to support the development of children and youth, particularly in respect
of potential opportunities and elimination of risky behaviour.
§ 18 Youth care centre and youth sociotherapy centre allow: (..)
1)
Participation in individual or group specialistic activities within pedagogical
therapy, psycho-educational classes, revalidating, socio-therapeutic, social prevention and
resocialization.
The inmates in the visited establishments are offered a variety of therapeutic,
preventive, learning and resocialising activities. When it comes to therapeutic
activities juveniles may participate in e.g. training of abilities to control behaviour
related to alcohol and drugs (TUKAN), Agression Control Training, Asertiveness
Training, Bibliotherapy, Rational Behaviour Therapy, Minesweeper School (a
programme for agressive youth), a programme on counteracting social exclusion
among children and youth (We’re together), relaxation, music therapy, imaginative
training, autogene training, movement workshops and sociotherapeutic activities.
There is usually a psychologist, working full time. There are also didactic classes,
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