Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw and the "Pomost" association. She cooperates with NGOs dealing with persons threatened by social exclusion. Since 2009, she has been an expert of the National Preventive Mechanism. Dorota Krzysztoń – criminologist, graduate of the University of Warsaw. A longtime civil servant, involved in the protection of the civil rights and mediator in criminal cases. Since January 2011, the employee of the National Preventive Mechanism in the Human Rights Defender's Office. Marcin Kusy – lawyer, graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin and the School of Human Rights and Freedoms at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has extensive knowledge of American law – the certificate of the Chicago Kent College of Law. He is interested in case-law of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and anti-discrimination law. The employee of the National Preventive Mechanism since 2008. Zbigniew Kuźma – lawyer, long-time employee of the Prison Service. While working in the penitentiary system, he implemented innovations regarding the fight against addictions (Atlantis programme), dealing with "dangerous" prisoners, social rehabilitation work. He participated in committees forming a new model of the penitentiary system, preparing the acts and executive deeds relating to the functioning of the penitentiary system and executing a penalty of imprisonment. Since 1998, he has been the employee in the Human Rights Defender's Office. Justyna Lewandowska - lawyer, graduate of the University of Warsaw. Since January 2011, the Director of the "National Preventive Mechanism" Unit in the Human Rights Defender's Office. In 2007, she completed the prosecutor's apprenticeship in Warsaw and since 2010, she has been a member of the Bar Association in Warsaw. A long-time employee of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. In the Foundation, she was engaged mainly in the rights of persons deprived of liberty, persons using psychoactive drugs and also those living with HIV/AIDS. In the years 2007/2008, she was a member of the team for amendment to the act on prevention of drug abuse and certain other acts, designated by the Minister of Justice. Marcin Mazur – lawyer, doctoral student at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration of the Catholic University of Lublin, associate solicitor. The employee in the Human Rights Defender's Office since 2004. Janina de Michelis – lawyer, graduate of the University of Warsaw, has been dealing with executive criminal law since 1975. The employee in the Human Rights Defender's Office since 1988, since 1989, the member of the Executive Criminal Law Unit. Przemysław Możejko – graduate of politics and law at the University of Gdańsk. In the years 1992-1994, he was employed as a housemaster of a penitentiary section, then as an inspector of penitentiary establishments. Since 2009, he has been dealing with the issues of executive criminal law in the Human Rights Defender's Office.