ANNUAL SPECIAL REPORT 2018
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for the accurate assessment of the incident. In addition, especially in cases
of prisoner violence and based on reports of detainees, the NPM in 2018
sought special information on how incidents of violence among detainees
were dealt with, in terms of both medical treatment and further disciplinary
and criminal management, focusing on the increased responsibility of the
State and on the need to encourage victims to exercise their rights. In this
context, during the inspections, the NPM examines the entries in the Injury
Logs, their correlation with the hospital transits, and certification of timely
notification of the prosecuting authorities.
It has to be noted, however, that the answers of the competent administrations of detention centres are usually confined to the constant and formal
assurance that the service has taken every possible preventive measure
and that the provision of further information will only be possible after the
completion of the administrative inquiries and/or criminal investigations.
In this context, during the inspections, there was a thorough control carried
out on the entries in the Injury Logs. In 2018, this initiative was carried out
in seven cases:
• Death from drug use at the Korydallos Prison Mental Health Hospital
(January 1st)
• Death from complication from a dental condition at Larissa Detention Facility, to which the prisoner had just been transferred from
the Malandrino Detention Facility (February 4th)
• Suicide at the Korydallos Detention Facility (26th June),
• Suicide at the Nea Alikarnassos Detention Facility (August 28th ),
• Suicide at the Chania Detention Facility "Crete 1" (8th September),
• Suicide at the Tripolis Detention Facility (October 10th ),
• Injury of a detainee in an attack by a fellow prisoner in the Avlona
Special Juvenile Detention Facility (December 10th).
However, to date the practice of making specific inquiries has not led to useful conclusions, since the competent administrations of detention centres,
in their generally succinct and descriptive responses, confine themselves to
the constant and formal assurance that the service has taken every humanly
possible preventive measure, with the reservation that the provision of further
information will only be possible after the completion of the administrative
inquiries and/or criminal investigations. It is therefore obvious that the common and rather general features of individual cases necessitate not only the
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