9.2. Detainees in penal institutions
sponsible for Healthcare shall establish “the nutritional provisions regarding
food supplied in the framework of organised catering and regular meals, as well as
the personal requirements for catering, diet planning and the preparation of dietetic
food, and the rules of official control”. As opposed to that, provisions concerning catering for persons detained in the penitentiary system are contained
in a normative instruction inferior to a ministerial decree: the special order
of the Director General of the Hungarian Prison Service. I asked the Minister of Human Capacities once again161 to inquire into – with the involvement of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Interior – the possibilities
of regulating the issues regarding the catering of detainees in a decree, and
take action with a view to the drafting of the provisions in compliance with
Section 247(2)sz) of the Healthcare Act.
I also examined the practice of the application of means of restraint in
arbitrarily selected cases. Based on the documents at my disposal, the use of
means of restraint was necessary, proportionate and legitimate in the given
cases, and the principle of gradualism was also respected.
The personnel had an excessive workload. Regular overwork increases
the quantity of stress, which may lead to burnout and a risk of ill-treatment
vis-à-vis the detainees. I asked the Director General of the Hungarian Prison Service that with a view to mitigating overwork, he consider increasing
the headcount of the Budapest Remand Prison.
9.3.
Police custody
9.3.1. Central Holding Facility of the Metropolitan Police
Headquarters of Budapest162
The aim of the follow-up visit made to the Central Holding Facility of the
Metropolitan Police Headquarters of Budapest (hereinafter the “MPHB”, together referred to as the “Central Holding Facility”) was to monitor the implementation of the recommendations formulated in the previous report163
and the repeated inspection of the issues that had been the most problematic.
At the time of the visit, the Central Holding Facility had 20 detainees for 46
authorised places, which means that the utilisation rate was 43.4%.
Detention conditions did not improve at all since the previous visit. During the medical check-up prior to admission, besides the medical personnel,
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See also my Report No. AJB-474/2018 on the follow-up visit to the Márianosztra Strict and
Medium Regime Prison.
Report No. AJB-496/2018.
Report No. AJB-151/2016.
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