The sanitary situation of the medical operating room is not satisfactory, and the room is
isolated from medical reception only by a curtain.
Quarantine section consists of 2 parts, which are designed to accommodate 28 and 38
prisoners. The cell has concrete floor, the two-tier beds and individual lockers. Each cell
has 3 windows, which have the inside metal grid, and the outside metal bars, limiting
the penetration of natural light in the cells and preventing the air movement. The cells
have no artificial ventilation.
In the 2014 Annual Report to the Parliament, the Public Defender addressed the Minister of Corrections with the recommendation to ensure proper natural and artificial ventilation of residential, solitary confinement and quarantine cells, which was fulfilled only
with regards to residential cells. Although, the problem of lack of natural and artificial
ventilation remains in solitary confinement and quarantine cells, the recommendation
with regards to the arrangement of the yards was implemented - in 2015 volleyball
field was arranged, table tennis equipment installed and garden equipped with exercise
tools, benches were installed in the second and third residential yards, which is a positive development. The requirement to ensure the privacy of showers was also fulfilled
by the partition of the showers. The recommendation to separate the reception room of
the Medical Unit from the operating room has not been met.
2.4.1.11. Establishment N15 of the Penitentiary Department
The space of the cells in N15 establishment is 17 m2-18m2 and they are meant for 6
persons each. Space does not correspond to the requirements of Article 15, paragraph
2 and 3 of the Imprisonment Code.93
The windows of the living cells fully provide natural lighting and ventilation. Artificial
ventilation system is not operating. There is central heating, flooring is of stone mosaic,
and the walls are rough. The sanitary condition in the corridors and stairs of the residential building is not satisfactory.
Quarantine and solitary confinement cells are located in a closed-type residential building. In total there are 16 single cells, which do not have isolated sanitary facilities. Prisoners have to serve their natural needs in the cell without any sanitary node. Sanitation
knot does not allow solitude. Meeting natural needs occurs under surveillance cameras.
Sanitary knot does not have water flush.
93 According to paragraph 2 of Article 15 of the Imprisonment Code: „the living space norm in any
type of penitentiary institution shall not be less than 4 square meters per prisoner”. According to
paragraph 3 of the same Article: “the living space per inmate of any temporary detention institution
shall not be less than 3 square meters”.
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