Juvenile detention centres and juvenile shelters
8. Work performed by juveniles
During the visit to the establishment it was also found that juveniles staying in
the Detention Centre spend most of their time cleaning up. The NPM representatives understand that the juveniles must fulfil the obligations resulting from the
Ordinance on juvenile detention centres which concern such issues as keeping the
rooms where they live clean and tidy and performing auxiliary cleaning work related to the functioning of the detention centre. However, the NPM representatives
found some abuses in this respect in the visited establishment. The daily schedule
of one of the groups indicated that the juveniles spent 11 to 14.25 hours cleaning
up the establishment (the figures show the minimum and the maximum number
of hours of work performed by juveniles as provided for in the daily schedule; the
work includes cleaning the staircase of the administration unit, cleaning shifts on
the ground floor, the staircase and in the corridor, shifts within the group). Moreover, the daily schedule in the separate living premises indicates that the juvenile
spends at least 2 hours a day performing cleaning and socially useful works for
the establishment. The work is the duty of juveniles and they do not receive any
remuneration for it. The representatives of the National Preventive Mechanism
recommended limiting the number of hours of obligatory non-remunerative work
performed by the residents of the Detention Centre to the limit provided for in
Article 95f(2) of the Act on juvenile delinquency proceedings (The juvenile is not
entitled to receive remuneration for cleaning work performed for a detention centre
or a shelter for a maximum of 30 hours a month; if the work is duly performed, juveniles may receive financial rewards). At the time of the visit, juveniles worked for
a minimum of 44 hours and a maximum of 57.40 hours a month.
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