Application to Constitutional Tribunal concerning the absence of remedy in respect of personal control of prisoners

Date of article: 22/01/2016

Daily News of: 03/02/2016

Country:  Poland

Author: Polish Ombudsman

Article language: en

The Commissioner applied to the Constitutional Court for a ruling on statement of inconstitutionality of regulations of the Executive Penal Code to the extent to which it does not provide issuing formal decisions concerning personal control of a convict. The officer of Prison Service decides on subjecting a prisoner to personal control and the prisoner has no possibility to have this decision verified by the penitentiary court.

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