Country

Greece

Detention issue

FRA research findings

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Penitentiary Code (Σωφρονιστικός Κώδικας)Provision of sufficient quality and quantity of nutrition for prisoners is a state obligation. Furthermore, clean drinking water is available to detainees at all times, since there are available taps in the areas (private cells and wards) where they reside and sleep The prison doctor drafts the nutrition programme on a weekly basis and defines special or complementary diets to individual prisoners or to special groups of prisoners according to their health condition (e.g. patients, pregnant women, mothers, infants, elderly prisoners), certain needs and religious beliefs. Prisoners can also cook their own food on the director’s license and in agreement with the doctor, if there is a need for special diet or additional nutrition for health reasons.

NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS

Year Recommendation Report
2018Chalkis Detention Facility There is no organised feeding area, the food is distributed in the courtyard shed and the food is consumed in the cells, in plastic containers carried by the detainees themselves Report details