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Legal instruments & key provisions
Legal instrument | Key provision |
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Regulation No. 345/1999, Rules of Procedure of the Exercise of the Punishment of the Deprivation of Liberty (Řád výkonu trestu odnětí svobody) | In a lodging room for more than one prisoner, there must be a minimum space of 4 m2 per person. The cell or bedroom for one prisoner must have a minimum space of 6 m2. The minimum standard space of a room intended for multiple prisoners can be decreased to 3 m2 per person but only in the case where the total number of prisoners serving a prison sentence of the same basic type and requiring the same level of security (prisons with security guards/i.e. minimum, medium, high-security prisons) exceeds the prison’s maximum capacity. |
Regulation No. 104/1994, Rules of Procedure of the Exercise of Custody (Řád výkonu vazby) | Minimum space of 4 m2 per person. The cell or bedroom for one prisoner must have a minimum space of 6 m2. The minimum standard for a cell for one person can be decreased to 4 m2. This is only possible if the total number of accused persons held/detained in the holding cells of a high court (vrchní soud) exceeds the prison’s maximum capacity. |
NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS
Year | Recommendation | Report |
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2016 | The NPM recommends that the General Directorate of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic aims at accommodating convicts in single-occupancy cells or double cells when restoring existing accommodation facilities and/or building new ones. In the course of the reconstruction of the current lodging houses or the construction of new ones, I recommend that the CPT standards regarding the area of lodging space per prisoner be taken into account. | Report details |