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FOREWORD BY THE GREEK OMBUDSMAN
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INTRODUCTION BY THE DEPUTY OMBUDSMAN RESPONSIBLE
FOR EXERCISING THE COMPETENCE OF THE NATIONAL
PREVENTIVE MECHANISM
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1. LEGAL FRAMEWORK, RESOURCES AND
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
1.a. Legal Framework and Resources
1.b. Recent Developments
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2. PRISONS
2.a. General annual findings
2.b. Inspections and other exploratory actions
i. Inspections during 2018
ii. Methodology of inspections
iii. Investigations of deaths and incidences of violence
2.c. Special issues that emerged in 2018
i. Risk of reoccurrence of overcrowding
ii. Insufficient treatment of incidents of violence
amongst detainees
iii. Infrastructure damages and inability to repair
iv. Progress and difficulties in prison visits
v. Insufficient grounds for refusal of temporary release
vi. Employment
vii. Schools
viii. Availability of entertainment, employment
and training
ix. Transfer to rural detention facilities
2.d. Specific observations on some detention facilities
i. Volos Special Detention Facility
ii. Kos Detention Facility
iii. Grevena Detention Facility
iv. Trikala Detention Facility
v. Chalkis Detention Facility
vi. Special Rural Detention Facility for
Juveniles in Kassaveteia
vii. Rural Detention Facility for Adults in Tiryntha
2.e. Institutional interventions
i. Welfare Allowance for Disabled Detainees
ii. Implications of criminal conviction
2.f. Legislative and organisational developments
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