General Report of the CPT, 2011-2012
83. The report notes that material conditions of detention have significantly
improved in most of the prison establishments visited, appropriate action having
been taken in the light of the recommendations made by the CPT in the report
on its 2007 visit. The delegation also gained a very favourable impression of the
regime offered to female and juvenile prisoners at Lipjan/Lipljan Correctional
Centre, and found that efforts had been made in the other establishments visited
to provide sentenced prisoners with purposeful out-of-cell activities. However,
the regime for remand prisoners remained impoverished in all the establishments visited, with inmates usually locked up in their cells all day, apart from
access to daily outdoor exercise (for two to three hours).
84. The delegation received no allegations and found no other indications of illtreatment of patients/residents by staff, or of violence among patients/residents,
in the psychiatric/social welfare establishments visited. Further, living conditions
at the Shtime/Štimlje Integration Centre for Mental Health had improved considerably as compared to the situation observed in 2007. However, the forensic unit
at the Psychiatric Clinic of Prishtinë/Priština University Hospital remained in a
poor state of repair and patients were not able to benefit from outdoor exercise.
According to the response, a new forensic psychiatric clinic was being constructed
which should become operational in January 2013. In the meantime, steps had
been taken to ensure that all forensic patients whose state of health so permits
are offered outdoor exercise every day.
Report and response published in October 2011, CPT/Inf (2011) 26
and CPT/Inf (2011) 27
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