I. INTRODUCTION A. The visit, the report and follow-up 1. In pursuance of Article 7 of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”), a delegation of the CPT carried out a visit to Greece from 8 to 11 November 2022. The visit was considered by the Committee “to be required in the circumstances” (cf. Article 7, paragraph 1, of the Convention). It was the Committee’s nineteenth visit to Greece.1 The main objective of the visit was to examine the treatment and living conditions of persons held in the Korydallos Psychiatric Hospital for prisoners. The delegation also visited the recently established transgender unit in Korydallos Women’s Remand Prison and carried out targeted follow-up visits to certain areas of the Korydallos Prison Special Health Centre and the Korydallos Men’s Prison. 2. The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:    Alan Mitchell, President of the CPT (Head of delegation) Sebastian Ładoś Elsa Bára Traustadóttir. They were supported by Hugh Chetwynd (Head of Division) of the CPT’s Secretariat, and assisted by an expert, Jutta Heilmann, Consultant for Psychiatry, Medical Psychotherapy and General Medicine (Austria). The report on the visit was adopted by the CPT at its 110th meeting, held from 6 to 10 March 2023, and transmitted to the authorities of Greece on 14 March 2023. The various recommendations, comments and requests for information made by the CPT are set out in bold type in the present report. The CPT requests that the Greek authorities provide within three months a response containing a full account of action taken by them to implement the Committee’s recommendations along with replies to the comments and requests for information formulated in this report. B. Consultations held by the delegation and co-operation encountered 3. In the course of the visit, the delegation met George Gerapetritis, Minister of State at the Office of the Prime Minister, and Konstantinos Papathanasiou, General Secretary for Anti-Crime Policy at the Ministry of Citizen Protection, as well as other senior officials responsible for prison matters at this Ministry together with officials from the Ministry of Health. 4. On the whole, the CPT received excellent co-operation during the visit by the Greek authorities at all levels. The delegation had rapid access to all places of detention it wished to visit, was able to meet in private with those persons with whom it wanted to speak and was provided with access to the information it required to carry out its task. The Committee wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance provided to its delegation during the visit by the management and staff in the places visited as well as for the support offered by its liaison officer from the Ministry of Citizen Protection, Georgios Thrapsaniotis. 1. The visit reports and the responses of the Greek authorities on all previous visits are available on the CPT’s website: https://www.coe.int/en/web/cpt/greece. 3