Details
Legal instruments & key provisions
Legal instrument | Key provision |
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Prison Sentence Execution Act (Zakon o izvršavanju kazne zatvora) | Male and female detainees serve their sentence separated. Pregnant women and those women who have given birth while serving their sentence, serve their sentence in the maternity ward of the penitentiary in Požega. |
Prison Sentence Execution Act (Zakon o izvršavanju kazne zatvora) | A pregnant woman is placed in the maternity accommodation unit six weeks before childbirth, or before the aforementioned period upon a physician’s recommendation. After childbirth, the mother and child are accommodated in the mother and child accommodation unit, where they typically remain until the child reaches three years of age. |
NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS
Year | Recommendation | Report |
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2018 | To the Ministry of Justice, to draft a national plan to combat violence among detainees. |