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Bulgaria

Detention issue

Sanitary conditions

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Execution of Penalties and Detention in Custody Act (Закон за изпълнение на наказанията и задържане под стража)All persons deprived of liberty must have permanent access to toilets. Persons deprived of liberty must be provided with access to bathing facilities once a day, if possible, or at least twice a week.

NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS

Year Recommendation Report
2017The NPM established that the recommendation made in the previous reports to build sanitary units in the cells has been implemented by the Directorate General Execution of Punishments and the Ministry of Justice respectively. In some cases, however, the reconstructions have been conducted inappropriately. For example, the sanitary units in the prison in Sofia have no access to daylight. In some cases, the building of sanitary units is blocking the access to daylight from the windows. The detention facility in Montana is an illustration of inappropriate reconstruction: the toilet is located in immediate proximity between two beds, there are no bars separating the toilet and access to daylight is blocked by a corridor between the premises and the windows. In a relatively new detention facility in Plovdiv the partition walls need to be further built. Additional reconstruction is also required after the reconstruction of the detention facility in G. M. Dimitrov, Sofia. Report details