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GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ELIMINATION OF SHORTCOMINGS
The Administration for enforcement of criminal sanctions should continue with
the activities of aligning the accommodation conditions in Institutions for enforcement of criminal sanctions with the applicable standards.
The Administration for enforcement of criminal sanctions should ensure sufficient number of medical workers, necessary quantity of drugs and medical aids to
improve the health care provision at the institutions for enforcement of criminal
sanctions.
The Administration for enforcement of criminal sanctions should ensure that persons with mental impairment serving their prison sentences be displaced from the
regular prison regime and be provided health care corresponding to their disease
within the stationary health care units within institution, in Special Prison Hospital
or any other adequate health-care institution.
The Ministry of Health should make periodical oversights over the work of health
care services at the institutions for enforcement of criminal sanctions.
Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health should undertake necessary measures so that services providing health care at the institutions for the enforcement
of criminal sanctions become organizational parts of the Ministry of Health or, as
an interim solution, to become the part of a unique organizational unit in the central office of the Administration.
Institutions for enforcement of criminal sanctions should enable to all persons
serving their prison sentences to spend their available time outside the dormitories during the day, in the common rooms with the other convicts.
Institutions for enforcement of criminal sanctions should continue to improve conditions for engagement of persons serving their prison sentences in the work, as
well as be involved in other daily activities.
Ministry of Justice should undertake all measures under its competence so as
to adopt regulations that would enable that prison sentences for women and
minors, as well as correctional measures of committing to correctional homes, are
enforced in more than one institution.
Ministry of Justice should undertake necessary measures so that the inspection
becomes a special organizational unit of that Ministry, outside the Administration
for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions.
6.4.
Detention of persons with mental disorders in psychiatric hospitals
In 2016, the NPM made 2 visits Special Psychiatric Hospitals in Vršac and Kovin, including 1
unannounced night visit to the Department of General Psychiatric Hospital in Subotica, which
was followed by 8 recommendations. The Hospital in Vršac was visited as the follow-up of recommendations from the Report on the visit of European Committee for Prevention of Torture
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