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Detention issue

Sanitary conditions

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Order on Correctional institutions’ and remand prisons’ interior rules (Įsakymas dėl Pataisos įstaigų ir tardymo izoliatorių vidaus tvarkos taisyklių patvirtinimo)Detainees must be given access to toilets under national law: detainees held in dormitory-type premises must be ensured access to a toilet and cold-water source at all times, and cell-type premises must be equipped with an in-cell toilet.
Lithuanian hygiene standard HN 134:2015 “Health safety requirements for places of imprisonment and territorial police arrest houses” (Lietuvos higienos norma HN 134:2015 „Laisvės atėmimo vietų ir teritorinių policijos įstaigų areštinių sveikatos saugos reikalavimai“)shower rooms and washrooms have to be clean and disinfected every day that they are used, also, detainees must be allowed to shower at least once a week.

NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS

Year Recommendation Report
2016The NPM indicated that the detention facilities were unclean in Plungė police commissariat and that Palanga police commissariat did not ensure the privacy of the detainees. Recommendations are to ensure that these issues are addressed. Report details
2017The NPM noted that in the police commissariats of Tauragė and Kaunas there were issues of privacy in the toilets. In Kaunas, Tauragė, Ukmergė the equipment of sanitary facilities was not in order. The facilities of detention in many commissariats were unclean. Recommendations are to ensure the solutions of the problems found. Report details
2018Recommendations: - To the Director of Lukiškės Remand Prison: to implement measures that ensure that hygiene rooms are adapted to the special needs of persons with disabilities (rails and handholds should be installed). To implement measures that ensure that washrooms and toilets are properly and continuously cleaned, and they are properly ventilated. To implement measures that ensure that damaged and non-functioning appliances in sanitary facilities are replaced, toilet booth locks that ensure privacy are installed. To implement measures that ensure that personal hygiene rooms are supplied with hygiene products and cleaning supplies. To implement measures that ensure that all detainees are allowed to shower at least twice a week”. - To the Director of Prison Hospital: to implement measures that ensure that cells (wards) and hygiene rooms are adapted to the special needs of persons with disabilities (entrances to cells and hygiene rooms are sufficiently wide for wheelchair entry, rails and handholds are installed in hygiene rooms)”. To implement measures that ensure that to implement measures that ensure that washrooms and toilets are properly and continuously cleaned and that toilet booth locks that ensure privacy are installed, hygiene products and cleaning supplies are available. Report details
2019The NPM recommend to implement measures that ensure proper conditions of living, hygiene, and material and domestic provisioning for detainees serving life imprisonment and persons serving a custodial sentence in prison, in Alytus Correction House, Marijampolė Correction House, Panevėžys Correction House, Pravieniškės Correction House – Open Colony, and Šiauliai Remand Prison. Report details