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Greece

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Penitentiary CodePersons with disabilities or other serious medical conditions and persons with mental health-related medical conditions are kept in Korydallos Special Health Centre for Prisoners and Korydallos Psychiatric Hospital respectively, so that they get better treatment for their medical condition.
Penal CodeGreek Penal Code regulates issues concerning the lenient treatment of elderly detainees or detainees with disabilities or other serious medical conditions. The possibility to serve the sentence at home is extended to detainees over the age of 70 who had sentences of temporary incarceration. It is also compulsory to serve the sentence at home for prisoners who suffer from end-stage acquired immune deficiency syndrome, chronic renal failure and undergo regular dialysis, resistant tuberculosis or are quadriplegic, cirrhosis of the liver with a disability over sixty-seven percent (67%), senile dementia or end-stage malignant neoplasms.

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