-6These detention areas are located on the second floor and they consist of -40- cells for 5
persons with five cement beds each.
At the men detention areas on the second floor there are in function -10- common toilets “of
Asian type” with a separating wall among them up to the ceiling and a door, as well as -7bathrooms, similarly with a separating wall.
The women detention areas are located on the 3rd floor. There is no connection with men’s
areas and they consist of -30-cells for five persons with 5 cement beds each. There are in function 5- common toilets of “Asian” type, similarly constructed with those of men and -4- bathrooms.
Minor men’s detention areas are located on the 3rd floor of the Aliens Division of Attica, in
a separate area, so as not to be any communication with other women’s detention areas, which are
on the 3rd floor, too. They consist of twenty (20) cells of 7 square meters each, with a cement bed.
At the detention areas, there are in function two (2) toilets and one (1) bathroom, which are
common for all minors.
All bathrooms have hot water for 24 hours a day.
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Egress to Court-yard and Entertainment Areas
Although there are court-yard areas for the detainees’ egress, outdoor of the detention
facilities at the terrace of the 2nd and 3rd floor, for the time being they are not used, as all security
conditions have to be met first.
For this reason, service actions are in progress, for the completion of necessary technical
interventions concerning security issues, after the approval of the relevant expense and the
undertaking of the project by the Technical Matters Division/ AEA.
In expectation to these interventions, one archery, two table tennis tables (ping pong) and
litter buckets have been procured, ashtrays etc., for the immediate commence of its operation, for
women and minors’ egress to court-yards.
Until the works are completed, because of the lack of areas for their egress to court-yard, in
regular and repeated periods of time during the day, the detainees may have an egress per three
cells, at the corridor of each wing.
An activity program is also in operation, with the creation of a lending library, under the
initiative of the Aliens Division of Attica and with the collaboration of the non-governmental
organization “Medical Intervention”, the content of which is constantly enriched with new books in
foreign languages. It is also reassured the possibility of newspapers and magazines reading that
their relatives bring them at visitation.
Minor detainees are more often allowed, for a longer period of time than the rest groups of
detainees (men-women), to get out of cells with a view, not only to satisfy their physical but also
their mental needs (association with the rest detainees etc.). Furthermore, during the afternoon, it is
allowed to contact between them in cells per groups of their choice and to spend their time in
entertaining and other activities (table games, conversations, etc.)