Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I Operation of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture................................................................9
Organization ........................................................................................................................................................ 9
Methodology....................................................................................................................................................... 12
Annual NMPT report.......................................................................................................................................... 14
Part II Situation in places of detention ....................................................................................................................15
Prisons and pre-trial de tention centres ............................................................................................................... 15
Detention of juveniles ......................................................................................................................................... 33
Police Emergency Centres for Children............................................................................................................... 33
Juvenile detention centres, juvenile shelters as well as youth care centres.............................................................. 37
Rooms for detained persons (RDPs) ................................................................................................................... 45
Systemic problems............................................................................................................................................... 45
Good practices to share........................................................................................................................................ 46
Areas which require improvement........................................................................................................................ 47
Social care homes ................................................................................................................................................ 50
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 50
Success ................................................................................................................................................................ 51
Systemic problems............................................................................................................................................... 53
Good practices to share........................................................................................................................................ 56
24-hour care facilities .......................................................................................................................................... 57
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 57
Systemic problems............................................................................................................................................... 57
Psychiatric hospitals ............................................................................................................................................ 59
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 59
Systemic problems .............................................................................................................................................. 59
Good practices to share........................................................................................................................................ 64
Nursing facilities ................................................................................................................................................. 66
Closed detention centres for migrants ................................................................................................................. 68
Sobering-up stations ........................................................................................................................................... 74
Part III Other activities of the NMPT.......................................................................................................................76
Assessment of legislative acts................................................................................................................................ 76
National and international cooperation............................................................................................................... 77
Educational activity............................................................................................................................................. 80
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