ANNUAL SPECIAL REPORT 2018
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available (Heraklion Transfer Department, Corfu Police Department, Thermi,
Mygdonia and Agios Athanasios Immigration Management Departments)
or exists but is not used for safety reasons (Pangrati and Kypseli Police
Departments), mainly due to insufficient number of guards.
ii. Guarding and separation of detainees
The insufficient number of guards affects not only the limited use of yards,
but also, and crucially, the security of detainees, as has been observed in
the Kissamos Police Department, which is not designed to be a detention
facility, and on 15 February, a detainee was hanged at a point not visible
to the cameras. Almost everywhere, in violation of the law, administrative
and criminal prisoners are detained in the absence of the possibility of
practical separation (Heraklion Transfer Department, Trikala, Kos, Pangrati
and Kipseli Police Departments).
iii. Capacity and cleanness
By constantly redistributing the administrative prisoners, ELAS tries to keep
their number per department within the prescribed capacity limits. However,
as the NPM's inspection numbers have identified in certain cases, even the
officially declared capacity is nominal and does not correspond to the actual
situation, as there are not enough built-in beds, and most detainees sleep
on the floor (Migration Management Departments of Thermi and Mygdonia).
Finally, overcrowding inevitably causes a lack of effective care and maintenance of the premises, resulting in a lack of cleanliness and failure to
repair the prisons (Police Departments of Kissamos, Kos, Rhodes, Kypseli).
Sometimes, conditions are absolutely suffocating, dangerous to health
and beyond limit of human endurance and dignity (Department of Patras).
However, given that under these conditions, criminal detainees are being
transferred, the consequences of these problematic health conditions are
transferred to other prisons. ●
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