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Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions Act (Zakon o izvrševanju kazenskih sankcij)Solitary confinement is a disciplinary sanction, which can only be imposed on convicts. They may face solitary confinement of up to 21 days with the right to work or up to 14 days without the right to work. A convict subject to solitary confinement shall have the right to a daily two-hour walk outdoors. The director of the institution can stop the execution of the disciplinary punishment of solitary confinement before the end of the imposed disciplinary punishment if they consider that the disciplinary punishment has achieved its purpose. An underage convict may only exceptionally be sentenced to solitary confinement with or without the right to work, but for a maximum of three days. In such case, the director of the institution shall immediately notify the director-general of any imposed disciplinary penalty of solitary confinement.
Enforcement of criminal sanctions act (Zakon o izvrševanju kazenskih sankcij)While serving the disciplinary sanction of solitary confinement, the convicted person shall be visited daily by a doctor who provides medical services in the institution or by another medical employee of the institution. If the doctor finds that further serving of the disciplinary sanction of solitary confinement would endanger the convict's health, they shall notify the director of the institution, who in turn shall decide that serving the disciplinary sanction is to be stopped.

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