Investigating human rights provide support for guards working the night shift. On the night shift, it is often not possible to inspect the integrated prison administration module before deployment – for reasons of time. The notices at the Vienna-Josefstadt correctional institution were only posted during the night shift, i.e. from 1:45 p.m. to 6:45 a.m. In the view of the AOB, these placards constituted an intrusion on the basic right of privacy guaranteed by Article 8 ECHR, which includes the right to keep personal data confidential. Information about health is particularly deserving of protection. It falls under the category of the “sensitive data” in the Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz). Right of confidentiality with respect to personal data The posting of notices stating “contagious disease”, can be classified as degrading treatment that stigmatises the affected inmate. Stigmatisation After obtaining an expert opinion from the Human Rights Advisory Council, the AOB recommended that the decree of 21 March 2013 regarding “Contagious diseases of inmates, duty to report and give notice, other measures” should be amended to add that posting health-related information on inmate cell doors is generally impermissible. The recommendation of the AOB was adopted by decree of the general directorate for prisons and detention of the Federal Ministry of Justice on 29 July 2016. Clarification by decree Inadequate psychiatric care of addicted minor inmates - Innsbruck correctional institution Two addicted minors criticised the inadequate psychiatric care at the Innsbruck correctional institution. One affected inmate told the AOB that the institution’s physician did not include her in the substitution programme. A second minor said that the physician had substantially reduced her dose of medication against her will. With respect to the first case, the Federal Ministry of Justice found that there was no established opiate dependency. Therefore, inclusion in a drug substitute programme would be counter-productive. In the second case, the Federal Ministry of Justice stated that the medication was reduced due to a lack of compliance and frequent violations of the work agreement. In both cases, the Federal Ministry of Justice stated that the female minor was not sent to a specialist in paediatric and adolescent psychiatry for evaluation or implementation of substitution treatment or for determining whether substitution therapy or an alternative therapy was indicated. No specialists in paediatric and adolescent psychiatry In the view of the competent specialised section of the general directorate for prisons and detention of the Federal Ministry of Justice, it is not mandatory to 77

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