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PRISONERS' COMPLAINTS

PRISONERS' COMPLAINTS The Republic of Croatia is a signatory of all documents on international human rights including the rights of prisoners. The capacity in prisons and penitentiaries is 3, 900 prisoners. During 2017, 4, 146 inmates (94.20% male and 5.80% female) served their prison sentence. One of the regulated rights is the right to make a complaints to the prison or penitentiary manager, the execution judge, the judicial council of the amenable county court, the central office of the Prison Administration, the amenable ministries, the Ombudsman, the Ombudsman for Gender Equality. the Ombudsman for Children, the Ombudsman for the Protection of Persons with Disabilities and international human rights organizations of which the Republic of Croatia is a member. In 2017, 171 complaints were filed with the amenable enforcement judge, and 11 appeals against the decision of the enforcement judge, which were addressed to the judicial council of the amenable county court. The other institutions listed above have received 211 complaints relating to conditions of accommodation, health care, treatment of officials, violation of other human rights, decisions of the courts, public prosecutor's office, information and more. All prisoners sentenced to imprisonment for more than six months are sent to the Zagreb Diagnostic Center (1190 prisoners in 2017) for the purpose of individualized treatment nad the type of penal institution recommendations. The final decision is on Central Bureau. As a rule, prisoners reside at the Diagnostic Center for about 4 weeks. This paper is based on a pilot study of prisoners' complaints (N=32) by those who stayed at the Diagnostic Center between January 2014 and May 1st, 2019. The type of complaints in relation to age, gender, non/vuluntary arrival at the Diagnostic Center, type of crime, recidivism and to whom the complaint was filed is analyzed.

prisoners, rights, complaints, Diagnostic Center

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