- 58 174. Either the Prison Hospital at Korydallos should be resourced as a hospital in the true sense of the term or, when appropriate, ready access to fully-equipped hospital services elsewhere should be guaranteed for patients held there (cf. also the request for information and comments in paragraph 165). d. the Psychiatric Unit at Korydallos Prison Complex i. the Unit in general 175. The Psychiatric Unit at Korydallos is the only establishment within the Greek prison system designed to hold mentally ill prisoners. It accommodates both persons on remand and sentenced prisoners and is called upon to fulfil both a therapeutic (psychiatric care) and a forensic (preparation of psychiatric reports for the judicial authorities) function. The delegation was informed that no one found at his trial to be criminally irresponsible under section 69 of the Penal Code would continue to be held in the Unit; such persons were placed in civil psychiatric hospitals. Conversely, no mentally ill sentenced prisoner could be placed in a civil hospital; as a result, such persons might stay in the Psychiatric Unit for very long periods of time (occasionally for more than ten years). In addition to mentally ill prisoners, a considerable number of prisoners were placed in the Unit because of drug addiction. Further, many of the prisoners in the Unit displayed some form of personality disorder and were not really psychiatric patients. The mentally ill prisoners and drug addicts were accommodated in distinct areas of the establishment, though it appeared that the separation of the two groups was not watertight. There was no differentiation between the different categories of prisoners for therapeutic purposes. At the time of the delegation's visit, the Unit was accommodating 240 prisoners (143 designated as mentally ill prisoners and 97 as drug addicts) i.e. 100 more than its official capacity of 140. 176. There was no full-time psychiatrist (post vacant for several years since the murder, outside the Unit, of the previous incumbent); a psychiatrist from the Attica Hospital visited the Unit three afternoons per week, and five mornings per week, one or other of two private psychiatrists visited the Unit. Two consultant general practitioners were available on request. Support health-care staff7 consisted of 3 nurses (none of whom were fully qualified) and 6 hospital officers (i.e. prison officers who acted as auxiliary nurses), to which should be added two social welfare officers. Further, a number of prisoners acted as medical orderlies. It should be added that doctors and nursing staff did not meet regularly. They did not form a working team under the authority of a senior doctor in charge of the service. Needless to say, health-care staff resources as described above are totally inadequate for the proper functioning of a psychiatric facility accommodating 240 prisoners. 7 There were also 48 prison officers (out of an official complement of 70), and 12 administrative staff.