II) Systematic Visits
and the convicts, study of the internal regulations and records of the convicts, including medical documentation. Photographic evidence was taken during the visits.
I sent the reports on the visits, which reflected my findings and contained my recommendations on
how to achieve better practice, to the heads of the individual prisons. Heads of all the prisons visited
responded to the report and informed me on the measures they adopted. The success rate (acceptance) of my recommendations is 81%. 3
2) Information on the facilities visited
The Office’s employees visited 7 out of the total of 35 prisons (27 men’s prisons have medium security
and high security blocks). In total, 20% of all existing prisons were visited (26% of men’s prisons with
medium and high security blocks).
The information on the prisons visited and their capacities 4 and fill-up rates 5, are specified in the
following table. Prisons marked in red include blocks that exceeded their capacity at the time of the
systematic visit.
Prison
Region
Capacity
Fill-up rate
Znojmo
South Moravia
207
164
Pardubice
Pardubice
678
584
Příbram
Central Bohemia
718
690
Karviná
Moravia–Silesia
203
87
Nové Sedlo
Ústí nad Labem
414
426
Břeclav
South Moravia
164
120
Jiřice
Central Bohemia
715
749
Nové sedlo
Jiřice
Pardubice
Příbram
Karviná
Znojmo
Břeclav
Map of the Czech Republic showing the visited prisons
3
The number includes even those recommendations that were accepted, but not implemented due to e.g. insufficient funds. Therefore,
the number also includes those of my recommendations which are yet to be implemented.
4
Only medium and high security blocks are included. Some of the visited prisons also included blocks with a different security levels or
remand custody blocks. These were not subject to the visits. The table shows the capacities as of the date of the systematic visit.
5
Situation as of the date of the systematic visit according to the monthly statistical reports issued by the Prison Service of the Czech
Republic. Available at www.vscr.cz [online].
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