Intramural Medicine in Poland

Abstract

The prison system in Poland is uniform and shaped by a legal act: the Executive Penal Code, Prison Service Act and published on their basis detailed executive acts. In the Polish prison system are two basic penitentiary facilities:

• Remand Prison;

• Prison.

The penalty of imprisonment is executed in the following kinds of correctional institutions:

• Juvenile penitentiary (convicts, who are under 21 years of age);

• Prison for first-time offenders;

• Prison for the re-convicted (adults convicted for intended crime for imprisonment and punished for intended crimes, who had previously served such punishment);

• Prisons for offenders serving military custody.

Every correctional institution can be organized as:

• closed;

• half-open;

• open.

Closed prisons differ from other types, in particular, in the degree of protection, isolation of convicts and their resulting obligations and rights with regard to their free movement within the area of the prison and outside.