Country

Austria

Detention issue

Nutrition

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Penal Code (Strafvollzugsgesetz)Detainees shall be adequately provided with simple prison food. The food shall be in accordance with nutritional science and tasty, it shall be served at the usual times of the day for meals.
Code of conduct for Detention (Anhalteordnung)Detainees shall be entitled to sufficient food and, once a day, to hot food as well as to a sufficient supply of drinking water.
Penitentiary System Act (Strafvollzugsgesetz)Detainees shall be adequately provided with simple prison food. The food shall be in accordance with nutritional science and tasty, it shall be served at the usual times of the day for meals.

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