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7. Follow-up visit
The first and the third locations, the Juvenile Penitentiary Institution107 and
the Central Holding Facility of the MPHB108 were selected because, during the
first visit, the visiting delegation had found signs of serious ill-treatment or the
threat thereof affecting a large group of detainees. Follow-up visits were paid
also to an institution that had been operating on temporary premises at the
time of the first inspection, due to refurbishment works. In the latter case, the
objective of the follow-up visit was to inspect to what extent my recommendations made as regards the temporary premises and the treatment of detainees
had been implemented after moving back109 to the permanent premises.110
In 2018, while performing the tasks of the NPM, I made a follow-up visit
to the Central Prison Hospital of Tököl.111
7.2.
Planning and preparing a follow-up visit
The follow-up visits are preceded by a written consultation with the detention
authority, in the course of which I analyse and evaluate the responses received
from the addressees of the recommendations made in my report. If necessary,
I also involve in this consultation civil organizations or authorities that I think
should be informed of the fundamental-rights-related improprieties uncovered
in order to facilitate their activities aimed at improving detention conditions
and the detainees’ treatment. The visiting plan is based on the recommendations made in the report on the previous visit and is aimed at re-examining
circumstances causing or potentially leading to fundamental-rights-related
improprieties. The primary objective of the new visit is to check the implementation of the recommendations made in the report on the previous visit.
7.3.
Setting up the follow-up visiting delegation
When setting up the visiting delegation, in addition to maintaining gender balance, ensuring multi-disciplinarity, and involving experts in the field of the pro107
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See Report No. AJB-1423/2015 and Report No. AJB-685/2017 on the first visit and the follow-up visit, respectively.
See Report No. AJB-151/2016 and Report No. AJB-496/2018 on the first visit and the followup visit, respectively.
See my Report No. AJB-3772/2017 on the follow-up visit to Platán Integrated Social Care
Institution of Bács-Kiskun County.
Regarding the follow-up visit, see the sections of Chapter 10 on Platán Integrated Social
Care Institution of Bács-Kiskun County.
http://www.ajbh.hu/documents/10180/2806238/OPCAT+NMM+utánkövetô+látogatás+
Tökölön_honlap_rövifhír.pdf
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