Table 1. Visits under the National Preventive Mechanism in the years 2008 – 2010. Units Prisons Pre-trial detention centres Juvenile shelters Juvenile detention centres Juvenile shelters and juvenile detention centres (operating jointly) Youth care centres Youth sociotherapy centres rooms for detained persons within the police headquarters Police emergency centres for children Sobering stations Social care centres* Psychiatric hospitals** Deportation centres*** Guarded centres for foreigners Centres for foreigners applying for a refugee status or asylum Rooms for detained persons within Border Guard centres. Total Number of units visited by NPM – 2008 Number of units visited by NPM – 2009 (number of repeated controls in brackets) Number of units visited by NPM – 2010 (number of repeated controls in brackets) Number of units visited by NPM (2008-2010) (number of repeated controls in brackets)11 Number of nonvisited units (as of end 2010) 87 13 16 5 (1) 34 (1) 54 70 8 16 3 10 3 9 (1) 0 35 (1) 6 36 2 17 2 2 2 (1) 6 (1) 12 10 74 2 3 2 7 4 12 (1) 8 22 (1) 2 53 61 1 4 (1) 1 6 (1) 56 339 11 21 15 47 292 27 43 793 4 2 0 5 11 1 4 14 (1) 6 13 27 (1) 7 14 17 786 218 8 9 5 22 196 8 4 2 2 8 0 6 3 2 1 6 0 15 0 4 0 4 11 50 1826 1 73 0 99 (1) 0 80 (5) 1 252 (6) 49 1580 Total number of units to be visited (as of end 2010) *) According to information from the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, there were 793 social care centres (hereinafter referred to as SCC) in Poland in 200912.This number includes all institutions financed from the Voivode's budget, out of which 587 are centres managed by poviat governments and 206 by private entities. However, this figure does not include establishments managed by natural persons as part of a business activity. An estimated number of such SCCs in 2010 was 24. Complete information in this regard is available at individual Social Policy Departments at Offices of the Voivode.                                                              11 Repeated controls carried out by the National Preventive Mechanism are given in brackets (which means that the same institution has been visited twice). Until now, repeated controls have been carried out in: Juvenile Detention Centre in Białystok, Youth Care Centre in Trzciniec, Prison in Tarnów, Pre-trial Detention Centre in Wrocław (all in 2010). Two visits per year (2009 and 2010) also concern a Youth Sociotherapy Centre “Kąt” and a Sobering Station in Gdańsk, however, these were not repeated controls by NPM. The reason for a repeated visit to the same unit in 2010 was discussed in detail in the chapter concerning sobering stations. 12 Data from the Ministry concerning the situation in 2010 will be published in September 2011, thus, the Table includes data for 2009.