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Belgium has already been condemned several times by the European Court of Human Rights as a result of prison living conditions. As recently as 2020, for example, our country was condemned for a detainee taking his own life.<\/p>\n
The biggest issues are around the infrastructure<\/strong> of the prisons and the overpopulation<\/strong> of it. The current covid-19 crisis makes this issue even clearer; following the 1.5-meter rule<\/em> is impossible to respect in practice due to the high number of detainees.<\/p>\n It has long been known that there is still much work to be done. Nevertheless, some initiatives are already underway to improve the living conditions<\/strong> of the detainees to improve<\/strong>.<\/p>\n For example, as of October 1, 2020, all inmates may have a file a formal complaint<\/strong> against a decision made by the prison warden.<\/p>\n This regulation should ensure that prisoners' rights are respected.<\/p>\n If a detainee is in the belief that his rights were violated, he can file a complaint with the impartial and independent Complaints Commission.\u00a0 The right to complain is a nice first step, but certainly not enough.<\/p>\n Consequently, Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne stated last week that part of the 125 million euros that will be extra invested in justice this year will be used to remedy the problems prevailing in prisons.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Het klachtrecht van een gedetineerde Belgi\u00eb is reeds meermaals veroordeeld door het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens ten gevolge van de leefomstandigheden in de gevangenissen. Zo werd ons land in 2020 nog veroordeeld voor het feit dat een gedetineerde zichzelf van het leven had beroofd. De grootste problematiek situeert zich rond de […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13266,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions\/13266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In addition, this complaint committee will produce reports on the volume of complaints; a prison where there are significantly fewer complaints will score better in terms of conflict prevention.<\/p>\n