and adolescents, conducting interventions in crisis situations, information and communication
techniques, ART aggression replacement training and counteracting hate speech. The institution
keeps a Register of Incidents, according to which in 2019 there were eight such events (three
related to the use of psychoactive substances, two suicide attempts, and single cases of selfmutilation, refusal to obey, and fight between juveniles). In 2020 there were two incidents (related
to the use of psychoactive substances). The documentation kept in the facility showed there were
cases of subculture-related conflicts between the juveniles, beating, threats about the performance
of sexual activities and other activities.
Prohibition of restraining violent and/or agitated juveniles; removal of metal beds, with handles
for restraining juveniles, from security rooms and introduction of alternative methods of
managing violent incidents; placing juveniles in a solitary confinement room only as a last resort,
for no longer than a few hours and never as a punishment270.
The recommendation has been implemented in part. The CCTV recordings and the analysis
of the documentation did not show any case of restraining juveniles and fixing them to metal beds with
belts. According to the director of the facility, the overall lower number of direct coercion measures is
a result of the current consciously different approach to aggressive behaviours of juveniles. The staff
members try to solve such problems by other means of persuasion, and coercion measures are used as a
last resort. At the same time, the NMPT delegation found that at the facility there were still cases of
placing juveniles in medical isolation rooms, for reasons not related to health271.
Ensuring regular visits by a general practitioner to the facility; every newly-arrived juvenile
should be properly interviewed and physically examined as soon as possible and no later than 24
hours after admission by a doctor or by a fully-qualified nurse reporting to a general
practitioner).272
The recommendation has been implemented in part. The facility employs a full-time nurse
who conducts the initial interview and an examination of the physical and mental state of the newly
arrived juvenile. His/her illnesses, previous hospitalization cases, medications, injuries, tattoos etc. are
described. The juvenile has a meeting with a psychiatrist no later than on the second day after arrival.
Despite the fact that the facility itself does not employ a general practitioner, a GP care is ensured.
However, medical examination of every juvenile arriving to the facility and having no disease symptoms
is not possible within the GP medical care system because it is not paid for by the National Health Fund.
270
See: Report on the CPT visit to Poland, CPT/Inf (2018) 39, paras. 103-107.
271
Two juveniles who did not attend the school were placed in one of the rooms. They could not remain
unsupervised within the school premises and within the dormitory.
272
See: Report on the CPT visit to Poland, CPT/Inf (2018) 39, paras. 99-101.
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