- 13 ➢ the role and input of the Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs in
education-related activities and vocational training;
➢ the role and input of the Ministry of Health in the provision of health care, including as
regards the staffing of health-care services in prisons;
➢ financial projections over a five year period, showing how the planned provision will be
met and implemented within the resource levels available, as well as extra-budgetary
funding requirements.
The CPT would like to receive a copy of the revised Strategic Plan, including detailed
information on the financing earmarked, with a breakdown for its various elements within a
period of six months.
b.
prisons visited
20.
In the course of the 2021 visit, the CPT’s delegation carried out follow-up visits to Korydallos
Men’s Prison, Korydallos Special Health Centre for Prisoners and Nigrita Prison. It also visited Corfu
Prison for the first time since 1997 and Chios Prison for the first time since 2009 and carried out a
first-time visit to Kos Prison. In addition, the delegation paid a targeted visit to Korydallos Psychiatric
Hospital for Prisoners.
Chios Prison, built in the 1960s, is located on the island of Chios near the west coast of
Turkey. At the time of the visit, the prison had an official capacity of 82 places and was
accommodating 103 adult men (i.e. an occupancy rate of 125%) in nine dormitories; there were also
two cells for disciplinary or separation purposes.14 Some 75% of the prisoners were foreign nationals
and 91 persons were sentenced, including five to life imprisonment.
Corfu Prison, located in the town of Corfu, is an old, cramped facility dating back to 1834 for
adult men. The prison consists of a small circular three-storey building in the centre, which is used
for educational activities, administration and the prisoners’ canteen, and 10 two-storey wings which
radiate out from the centre.15 There are nine accommodation wings (A to I), each with 15 cells, and
the tenth wing (K) with nine cells for disciplinary or separation purposes. Each wing has access to an
outdoor exercise yard. At the time of the CPT’s visit, the prison was accommodating 237 persons for
an official capacity of 138 places (i.e. an occupancy rate of 171%). The vast majority of men (227)
had been sentenced to more than five years of imprisonment and had been transferred to Corfu to
serve their sentences. The remaining seven men were detained on remand. Corfu Prison had also been
designated as the establishment to accommodate transgender women and, at the time of the visit, held
three transgender women on K Wing.
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At the time of the CPT’s previous visit to this establishment in 2009, it had been holding 157 persons.
The offices of the Director and of the administrative personnel are located in a separate building outside of the
prison. Upon entering the prison, there is an 11th wing of seven cells which had apparently been used to
accommodate political prisoners in the 1970s but which was supposedly no longer used.
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