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Introduction: The Criminal Sanctions Agency of Finland is planning to build a remand prison on the same site with a police station. Part of the premises will be in joint use. In Finland the prison service operates under the ministry of justice and the police service operates under the ministry of the interior. Both services have clearly different jurisdiction and duties. The concept of building shared campus with the police is new in Finland and we would be interested to know if anybody has experience in this kind of cooperation and how have you solved the practical issues.
No
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises?No
What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?not applicable
No such joint building exist in Scotland.
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises? What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?No we don't have joint buildings. The two services has different roles and they should be separated for various reasons explained in the European Prison Rules and the relevant Recommendations of the Council of Europe.
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises?not applicable
What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?The pre-trial persons kept in our prison facilities have the same communication rights and a range of activities as the convicted persons.
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No
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises?No
What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?No.
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises?No.
What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?In principle, remand prisoners are not prohibited from all means of communication (visits, correspondence and telephone calls). Overall, the means of communication are monitored rather than failed. Visits may be visually inspected for reasons of safety or organization of the institution. The optical monitoring can be carried out with technical aids; the persons concerned must be informed in advance. The Head of Institution may order the acoustic surveillance in individual cases, if it is necessary for reasons of safety of the institution or to prevent a serious disturbance of the institution's order. Incoming and outgoing letters are monitored for prohibited items. The Head of the Institution may order the text control, as far as it is necessary for reasons of safety or to avert a serious disturbance of the order of the institution. Visits of defenders and the correspondence of the remand prisoners with their defenders are not monitored. If it is necessary to supervise the telephone conversation, the intended supervision must be communicated to the interlocutors of the remand prisoners immediately after the establishment of the connection by the institution or the remand prisoners.
There are not such joint buildings in Austria
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises?There are not such premises in Austria
What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?Remand prisoners with communication restrictions, which mainly concern their seperation from their partners in crime, are beeing offered the same activities as all the other remand prisoners, of cource as far as those activities are compatible with the restrictions posed. For example those remand prisoners are also allowed to attend leasure time activities such as sport, to spend minimum one hour per day in the prison yard and even to work - if they wish so and also if there are some working positions available, since work is not compalsory in the remand prisons in Austria, but during those activities or work the prison staff pays special attention to avoid any contact with their partners in crime.
No, we don´t have such buildings.
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises?No, we don´t have such buildings.
What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?Basically, all remand prisoners have the same communication possibilities with persons outside prison environment (visits, correspondence, telephone calls). Restrictions include only stricter control of chosen communication means in case of remand prisoners detained in the so-called collusive custody (e.g. remand prisoner in collusive custody can receive a visit only after the previous approval of the respective criminal proceedings authority or court). This restrictions are given by purpose of the collusive custody.
No joint buildings with the police were built since Lithuania regained its independence in 1990.
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises?Some probation agencies rent administrative premises in police stations. The boundaries of the jurisdiction are regulated by the Law on the Management, Use and Disposal of State and Municipal Assets of the Republic of Lithuania.
What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?Remand prisoners are offered different sports activities both inside (e.g., table tennis, training devices, exercises, yoga, etc.) and outside the establishment (e.g., basketball, volleyball); educational activities (meetings with NGOs, religious representatives, artists, academics, etc.); art; table games; visits to a library-reading room; computer classes (without internet); agricultural activities.
Latvian imprisonment places do not have joint premises (not even on the same plot of land) with the police.
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises?Please see answer to Question 1.
What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?According with Section 11 Part 4 of the Law On the Procedures for Holding under Arrest, arrested persons shall be accommodated separately from convicted persons. According with Cabinet regulations No.800, signed on 27th November 2007 – Section 34.11. of the "Internal Regulations of Investigation Prison", arrested persons are not allowed to communicate with other arrested persons in different cells. In Latvian imprisonment places arrested persons have the opportunity to take part in free time activities – sport activities, culture activities, informative activities, art activities and amateur workshop activities (in 2018 a total of 5102 arrested persons used this opportunity). The activities that the most arrested men took part in were sports activities, but the arrested women – amateur workshop activities. The persons detained in Latvian investigation prisons to whom communication restrictions have been applied, do not have restrictions regarding participation in activities (sports, amateur workshop, culture and other free time activities). In cases where one arrested person is applied communication restrictions with another arrested person and both (or more) detainees are placed in the investigation department, then participation of such persons in activities are evaluated individually by the prison administration. As a solution, activities are organized separately in several groups taking into consideration the set restrictions and safety criteria. The persons detained in Latvian investigation prisons, also arrested persons to whom communication restrictions have been applied, have the opportunity to take part in secondary education; however, if there are such restrictions, studies are organized according with an individual plan. The persons detained in Latvian investigation prisons, also arrested persons to whom communication restrictions have been applied, have the opportunity to receive individual psychologist consultations and individual spiritual care (e.g., talk with chaplain). However, detainees who do not have a TV in their cell are provided with opportunity to watch TV programmes outside their cell in accordance with the set daily schedule.
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We do not share locations with the Police in a structural way.
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises? What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?Les restrictions en termes de communication sont prévues par la loi du 20 juillet 1990 relative à la détention préventive (loi du 20 juillet 1990 relative à la détention préventive, M.B., 14 août 1990). Ces décisions ressortent de la compétence du juge d’instruction. - Le juge d’instruction peut, lorsque c’est nécessaire pour l’enquête, prononcer une interdiction de communiquer avec d’autres personnes que l’avocat. Cette décision est valable pour maximum 3 jours à partir de la première audition de l‘inculpé par le juge d’instruction. Elle ne peut être renouvelée. Les inculpés qui font l’objet d’une telle décision ne peuvent participer à aucune activité en commun (préau commun, travail, activités de détente,…). Il ne peuvent avoir de contacts avec des tiers, que ce soit par la visite, le téléphone ou la correspondance). Ils gardent le droit au préau individuel. - S'il existe de sérieuses raisons de craindre qu'un inculpé puisse tenter de faire disparaître des preuves ou d'entrer en collusion avec des tiers, le juge d'instruction peut ordonner de maintenir un inculpé à l'écart d'autres inculpés et/ou interdire la visite/la correspondance/les contacts téléphoniques avec des personnes extérieures à la prison citées individuellement dans l'ordonnance. Cette décision est valable le temps strictement nécessaire fixée par le juge d’instruction et au plus tard jusqu’à la fin de l’instruction. L’inculpé garde toujours la possibilité de prendre contact avec son avocat. Toutes les activités proposées par la prison lui sont accessibles (si nécessaire, avec un aménagement dans les horaires pour qu’il ne soit pas en contact avec un coinculpé duquel il doit être séparé)
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Yes, there are remand prisons and prisons for short sentences on the same site. But there are no shared facilities between the police and the Criminal Sanctions Agency of the 26 cantons for the enforcement of (long) prison sentences. Given that some cantons are quite small, the joint use of some buildings is due to cost and efficiency reasons. Some buildings also have premises of the court, the public prosecutor’s office and the mayor, for instance. Generally, governors of the remand prisons working on the same site with the police tend to evaluate positively the proximity. Since prison staff and police officers perform a couple of security-related activities in cooperation with each another, the physical closeness between the services is perceived as helpful.
Do you have joint premises (rooms) with the police? Have there been any challenges in defining the boundaries of jurisdiction (legal authority) between the police officials and the prison officials when they are operating in the shared premises?No, there is no shared or joint premises with the police. The Criminal Sanctions Agency in the cantons and the Cantonal Police have a different mandate, different roles, duties, activities, which are ruled according to legal provisions of the cantons. The common mission of protection public security imposes nevertheless a continuous framing of how to work together without losing sight of the specific competence of the agencies. Issues as transition management, multi-agency approach, information management, data protection, amongst other issues, are currently being discussed by the crime preventing authorities on a cantonal as well as on a nationwide level.
What kind of activities do you offer to those remand prisoners who have communication restrictions?Based on an example, some of the activities for inmates with communication restrictions: (a) daily one-hour-outdoor stay in the courtyard (b) work in indoor workshops (c) group activities, in line with available work (d) leisure activities on request, e.g. boxing (e) fitness room twice a week, if authorized The remand prison model is currently being revised in some cantons.