and adolescents, conducting interventions in crisis situations, information and communication techniques, ART aggression replacement training and counteracting hate speech. The institution keeps a Register of Incidents, according to which in 2019 there were eight such events (three related to the use of psychoactive substances, two suicide attempts, and single cases of selfmutilation, refusal to obey, and fight between juveniles). In 2020 there were two incidents (related to the use of psychoactive substances). The documentation kept in the facility showed there were cases of subculture-related conflicts between the juveniles, beating, threats about the performance of sexual activities and other activities. Prohibition of restraining violent and/or agitated juveniles; removal of metal beds, with handles for restraining juveniles, from security rooms and introduction of alternative methods of managing violent incidents; placing juveniles in a solitary confinement room only as a last resort, for no longer than a few hours and never as a punishment270. The recommendation has been implemented in part. The CCTV recordings and the analysis of the documentation did not show any case of restraining juveniles and fixing them to metal beds with belts. According to the director of the facility, the overall lower number of direct coercion measures is a result of the current consciously different approach to aggressive behaviours of juveniles. The staff members try to solve such problems by other means of persuasion, and coercion measures are used as a last resort. At the same time, the NMPT delegation found that at the facility there were still cases of placing juveniles in medical isolation rooms, for reasons not related to health271. Ensuring regular visits by a general practitioner to the facility; every newly-arrived juvenile should be properly interviewed and physically examined as soon as possible and no later than 24 hours after admission by a doctor or by a fully-qualified nurse reporting to a general practitioner).272 The recommendation has been implemented in part. The facility employs a full-time nurse who conducts the initial interview and an examination of the physical and mental state of the newly arrived juvenile. His/her illnesses, previous hospitalization cases, medications, injuries, tattoos etc. are described. The juvenile has a meeting with a psychiatrist no later than on the second day after arrival. Despite the fact that the facility itself does not employ a general practitioner, a GP care is ensured. However, medical examination of every juvenile arriving to the facility and having no disease symptoms is not possible within the GP medical care system because it is not paid for by the National Health Fund. 270 See: Report on the CPT visit to Poland, CPT/Inf (2018) 39, paras. 103-107. 271 Two juveniles who did not attend the school were placed in one of the rooms. They could not remain unsupervised within the school premises and within the dormitory. 272 See: Report on the CPT visit to Poland, CPT/Inf (2018) 39, paras. 99-101. 101

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