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7. The primary aspect of investigation: segregation of persons deprived…
The rules of law-enforcement provide in due details for ordering, executing and reviewing measures involving isolation, and duly ensure the right
to complain and appeal. In connection with the applications of these measures, I did not find any circumstances indicative of any fundamental-rightsrelated impropriety.
In the course of a follow-up visit to the Juvenile Penitentiary Institution
in Tököl,122 I reviewed the implementation of measures initiated earlier, in
particular in 2015, in the interest of improving the conditions of isolation.
Following the earlier NPM visit, rustproof lavatory bowls were installed in
the 13 cells in the right wing of the cell block housing the isolation unit, and
the per capita six square meters of personal space had been ensured through
chiseling off the walls of the cells. The cells in the cell block’s left wing had
been painted, porcelain toilet bowls and wash basins had been installed,
and larger doors and windows were to be installed. Heating pipes in the cell
block had been painted and covered, light fittings and strip lights had been
replaced in the cells and corridors, the doors and walls had been repainted.
I was sorry to learn that, due to financial reasons, no emergency notification system had been installed. It gives cause for concern that, judging
by the interviews made with detainees in isolation, getting there means an
opportunity to escape an environment of abuse.
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See Report AJB-685/2017.
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