- 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. 14 15 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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