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Poland

Detention issue

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Legal instruments & key provisions

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Executive Penal Code (Kodeks karny wykonawczy)Women who serve their sentence or are placed in pre-trial detention are held separately from men. In principle, women sentenced to deprivation of liberty serve their time in semi-open establishments. The level of a female inmate’s demoralisation or safety issues can however be factors for placing her in a unit of a different regime (closed).

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