Abstract:
This report is a follow up to previous visits to the
Hungarian, Polish and Czech Prison Departments
in January 2001. In the first visits, discussions were
held with the Prison Service Headquarters in each
country about the key issues affecting the provisions
of health care and related issues in the organisation
and management of the prison system (see previous
report, MacDonald, 2001). The initial exploratory
visits also provided an understanding and knowledge
of the policies for health and drug and alcohol
addiction developed by the prison services in each
of the countries.
The initial visits of 2001 provided the basis for
the second visits during 2002. The aim of the visits
was to facilitate a broad-based review of provision
of health care and response to drug addiction in each
of the sample prisons. In each country, three prisons
were visited which included male and female
prisons, those for sentenced and pre-sentenced
prisoners and institutions for young offenders. The
sample prisons visited in the Czech Republic were
Plzen male pre-sentenced and sentenced prison,
Svetla nad Sazavou Women’s prison and Vsehrdy
juvenile prison. In Hungary they were Kalocsa
women’s prison, Szeged high-security male
sentenced prison and Tököl juvenile prison. In
Poland they were Katowice sentenced prison,
Grochow pre-sentenced prison and Lubliniec
women’s prison.
