II. P Psychiatrric facilitiies According to inform mation from m the Federral Statistica al Office an nd the Fedeeral Ministry y of Jusere are apprroximately 326 3 psychia atric clinics and facilitie es for the pllacement of offendtice, the 2 ers with h mental dissorders in psychiatric p i nstitutions nationwide23 which fal l within the remit of the Com mmission off the Lände er. A centre e for Forens sic Psychiattry and a cllinic for you ung drug addicted d criminal offenders o were w visited in the perio od under re eview. The Commissio on of the Länder addressed its recomm mendationss to the res spectively competent c Ministry off Health, es, Care and Ageing, as well ass to the Sta ate Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Equalitie Familiess and Women. 1. L Lippstadt Centre fo or Forensic c Psychia atry in Aug gust 2011 The Commission of o the Lände er carried ou ut an inspec ction visit at Lippstadt Centre for Forensic F atry of Westtfalen-Lippe e Regional C Council (he ereafter LWL L Centre forr Forensic PsychiaP Psychia try) on 18 August 2011. The Commissio on of the Länder L was s accompannied by a forensicf atric expert. psychia LWL Ce entre is one e of the larg gest forensiic-psychiatrric clinics in Germany, with 301 trreatment places. 270 placess were occupied on th he visiting day, d and with the tem mporarily absent pae been 312.. tients it would have o the Lände er focussed its inspection on the following f suub-areas: the recepThe Commission of ng, the “intensive care room”, the d otherapy annd sociotherrapy, the departmentt for psycho tion win mixed-g gender ward d of the dep partment of clinical psy ychiatry, the e release pre reparation ward, w the therapy rooms, the e visiting ro oom, the sa nitary facilitties and the e cultural ceentre. It carried out talks with the med dical director and with h staff mem mbers of various ward rds. Furtherrmore, it with patientss, as well as s with mem bers of the auxiliary pa atient’s counncil. spoke w Recom mmendation ns of the Commission C n of th he Länder The Co ommission complains of the dou uble occupa ancy of individual roo oms with a ffloor area of 12.6 m². Be ecause of th he shape off the y the furnitu re is narrow rooms and of the way onsiderablyy replaced, the living area is co n offer space for a w wardstricted and does not Cupboards and a other objects o (bo oxes, robe. C clothes horses, etcc.) are storred in the ccorrioo many people p are accommod ated dors. To here in a very sma all area with h the article es of ey need. daily usse which the of Health, EqualiReaction of the e Ministry o ties s, Care and d Ageing off the Land North Rh hine-Westp phalia The occupancy y situation iss said to ha ave bee less tense e at the endd of Septem mber as come a result of the opening oof another wing. w It uld be exam mined for w what reason ns addishou tiona al treatment places weere not tak ken into operration earlie er. Basic aggreement with w the Com mmission was w expresssed that single room ms should not n be occu pied by mo ore than one person. Th hat notwithsstanding, th his may be necessary n should s it bee the only way to cope e with new arrivals. Thhis was som mething 23 cf. Fed deral Statistica al Office (2011), Fachserie 12, Reihe 6.1.1, Gesundh heit. Grunddatten der Krank kenhäuser, Wiesbade en, p. 15, ass well as Verrzeichnis alle er Justizvollzu ugsanstalten in den Ländeern der Bund desrepublik des Maßrege Deutschla and und der Einrichtungen E elvollzugs at htttp://www.bmj.de/SharedDoocs/Downloads s/DE/pdfs/ Verzeicnis_a aller_Justizvollzugsanstalten n_in_den_Lae endern_der_Bu undesrepublik k_Deutschlandd.pdf?__blob= =publicatio nFil, version: 1 October 2010 [most recently r retrievved on 22 Dec cember 2011] 53