- 28 The CPT recommends that the Greek authorities ensure that the official capacity of 160 patients at Korydallos Prison Psychiatric Hospital is in line with the national minimum standard of living space per patient in a mental health care institution, and that this capacity is adhered to in practice. Further, action should be taken to ensure that only those prisoners in need of in-patient treatment are accommodated in the Hospital. 61. All patients at Korydallos Prison Psychiatric Hospital were men.36 However, following the above-mentioned transfer of responsibility, the Hospital is expected to include a 10-person unit for women, and another for juveniles, in addition to 180 places foreseen for men, with an overall capacity of 20037. The CPT would like to be informed of the steps envisaged to set up these two new units at the Hospital, in particular as regards their location, and the material conditions and regime offered to patients placed there. 62. The delegation received no allegations of recent physical ill-treatment by staff at Korydallos Prison Psychiatric Hospital. Inmates with longer experience at the establishment spoke to the delegation of violence by staff dating back a number of years, stating that this was no longer a problem. Nevertheless, the delegation did receive a few allegations of verbal abuse and other disrespectful behaviour by staff. The CPT recommends that the hospital management issue a clear message to all staff that such behaviour is unacceptable. It is also positive that the CPT's delegation received no allegations of inter-patient violence, which had been a source of serious concern during the Committee's previous visit in 2005. 38 On the contrary, protection from such occurrences had visibly improved, due at least in part to a more structured - yet still relatively open - regime on movements. 63. Material conditions at the establishment were generally poor, and certainly not of a standard required of a hospital. The only common indoor area, on the 1st floor, was a large eating hall with no furnishings apart from a television and low fixed benches along the walls and in the centre. Cells in the Segregation Unit, in the ground floor annex, had adequate access to natural and artificial light and ventilation, but they were particularly dilapidated and bleak, fitted only with metal beds, dirty mattresses and blankets, but not, for the most part, with sheets or pillows. Sanitary annexes in the segregation unit cells were in working order, with a floor-level toilet and sink, but they were unhygienic (each had an open drain) and squalid. The CPT recommends that material conditions at Korydallos Prison Psychiatric Hospital be improved in the light of the foregoing remarks. 36 37 38 Several women had been held at the establishment some years prior to the visit. However, after a fire incident, the establishment has reverted to solely accommodating men. Article 6 of the draft Presidential Decree. See the CPT’s 2005 visit report (CPT/Inf (2006) 41), paragraph 82.

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