Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2017
Good practices to share
During NMPT visits, the representatives encountered initiatives that definitely go beyond the
usual standard witnessed in prisons. Such noteworthy initiatives included:
fully sheltered sanitary areas with washbasins in all residential cells within the establishment72,
children’s corners in supervised visit rooms, in the waiting room for visitors, in a separate
visit room without a supervisor as well as the high standard of all of those facilities73,
prisoners’ waiting room in the outpatient clinic finished to a high standard74,
equipping the common room in one of the wards with, among others, two computer
workstations without access to Internet resources, that can be used by detainees during
common room activities75,
equipping all residential cells with wardrobes76.
What was also welcomed were efforts of the director of one establishment aimed at adapting a cell to the needs of prisoners with physical disability despite the fact that the establishment was not intended for individuals on wheelchairs77.
72 Prison in Herby
73 Prison in Malbork
74 Prison in Malbork
75 Prison in Malbork
76 Field unit of the pre-trial detention centre in Radom
77 Prison in Herby
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